Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, when running on Macintosh systems that restrict Office access to administrators, does not enforce this restriction for user ID 502, which allows local users with that ID to bypass intended security policy and access Office programs, related to permissions and ownership for certain directories.

Outlook in Microsoft Office for Mac 2008 before 12.3.6 and Office for Mac 2011 before 14.3.2 allows remote attackers to trigger access to a remote URL and consequently confirm the rendering of an HTML e-mail message by including unspecified HTML5 elements and leveraging the installation of a WebKit browser on the victim's machine, aka "Unintended Content Loading Vulnerability."