Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The Microsoft Office Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

  - Microsoft Office is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. (CVE-2024-49065)

  - Microsoft Office is affected by an elevation of privilege vulnerability. (CVE-2024-49059)

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

The version of Microsoft Office for Mac installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the december-10-2024 advisory.

  - Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-49069)

  - Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2024-49065)

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

The Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 installation on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by a privilage elevation vulnerability.

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

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to gain elevated privileges.
    (CVE-2024-43600, CVE-2024-49059)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2024-49065)

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

The Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 installation on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:
  - Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability.
    (CVE-2024-49068)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability.
    (CVE-2024-49065, CVE-2024-49070)   
  - A Information Disclosure Vulnerability.     (CVE-2024-49062, CVE-2024-49064)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
213524	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products C2R (December 2024)	Nessus	Windows	high
212269	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (December 2024) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
212234	Security Updates for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019 (December 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
212230	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (December 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
212226	Security Updates for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016 (December 2024)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2024-49065

medium

Tenable Plugins

high

high

high

high

high