Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

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

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-40454, CVE-2021-40472)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-40471,     CVE-2021-40473, CVE-2021-40474, CVE-2021-40479,     CVE-2021-40480, CVE-2021-40481, CVE-2021-40485,     CVE-2021-40486)

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-2021-40474,     CVE-2021-40485)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-40472)

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-2021-40474, CVE-2021-40486)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-40472)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
162080	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products C2R (October 2021)	Nessus	Windows	high
162064	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products C2R (October 2021)	Nessus	Windows	high
154171	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Web Apps (October 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
154038	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (October 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
154027	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (October 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2021-40472

medium

Tenable Plugins

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high

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high