Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-28455, CVE-2021-31175, CVE-2021-31176, CVE-2021-31177,     CVE-2021-31179, CVE-2021-31180)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-31174, CVE-2021-31178)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Microsoft Excel Products are missing security updates.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-31175,     CVE-2021-31177, CVE-2021-31179)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-31174, CVE-2021-31178)

The Microsoft Office Web Apps installation on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-31175,     CVE-2021-31177, CVE-2021-31179)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-31174, CVE-2021-31178)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
162095	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products C2R (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows	high
162042	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products C2R (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows	high
149401	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
149397	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
149387	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Web Apps (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2021-31179

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Tenable Plugins

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