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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (July 2018)

high Nessus Plugin ID 110992

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Office Products are affected by a vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates.
They are, therefore, affected by a vulnerability :

 - A tampering vulnerability exists when Microsoft Outlook does not properly handle specific attachment types when rendering HTML emails. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a specially crafted email and attachment to a victim, or by hosting a malicious .eml file on a web server. (CVE-2018-8310)

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
-KB4022200

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?0eabd4e7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 110992

File Name: smb_nt_ms18_jul_office.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 7/10/2018

Updated: 11/4/2019

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8310

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-8310

MSFT: MS18-4022200

MSKB: 4022200