Security Update for Microsoft Office (November 2017) (macOS)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 104546

Language:

Synopsis

An application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Office 2016 application installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

- A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software by not enforcing macro settings on an Excel document. The security feature bypass by itself does not allow arbitrary code execution. To successfully exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would have to embed a control in an Excel worksheet that specifies a macro should be run.
(CVE-2017-11877)

- An unspecified vulnerability exists in Microsoft Word.
(Adv 170020)

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Microsoft Office 2016 for Mac.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 104546

File Name: macosx_ms17_nov_office.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Family: MacOS X Local Security Checks

Published: 11/14/2017

Updated: 6/3/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-11877

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/14/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-11877

BID: 101747

IAVA: 2017-A-0337-S

Detections

Analytics