, dubbed the vulnerability “Follina” as the sample file references 0438 — the area code of Follina in Italy.Follina received a common vulnerability scoring system severity rating of 7.8 out of 10, making it a critical flaw that should be mitigated as soon as possible.Beaumont said attackers could bypass Microsoft Office’s Protected View feature by converting the document to Rich Text Format.
Users don’t need to open RTF documents for their system to be infected — the malicious code runs even if targets only preview the file in Explorer. Although Microsoft has not yet released an official patch for Follina, the company gave workarounds on its
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