Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (November 2019)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 130913

Synopsis

The Microsoft Office Products are affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

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

- An information disclosure vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could obtain information to further compromise the users system.
(CVE-2019-1402)

- A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. (CVE-2019-1448)

- A security feature bypass vulnerability exists in the way that Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle a specially crafted file, which could lead to a standard user, any AppContainer sandbox, and Office LPAC Protected View to escalate privileges to SYSTEM.
(CVE-2019-1449)

- An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Microsoft Excel improperly discloses the contents of its memory. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information to compromise the users computer or data. (CVE-2019-1446)

Solution

Microsoft has released the following security updates to address this issue:
-KB4484152
-KB4484160
-KB4484148
-KB4484127
-KB4484113
-KB4484119

For Office 365, Office 2016 C2R, or Office 2019, ensure automatic updates are enabled or open any office app and manually perform an update.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?7899bb59

http://www.nessus.org/u?9ea2af0a

http://www.nessus.org/u?f2f9db6d

http://www.nessus.org/u?cd218f71

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ff227fc

http://www.nessus.org/u?99349609

http://www.nessus.org/u?c6fc9b1b

http://www.nessus.org/u?42ab6861

http://www.nessus.org/u?7b126882

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 130913

File Name: smb_nt_ms19_nov_office.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 11/12/2019

Updated: 6/10/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-1449

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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: 11/12/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/12/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-1402, CVE-2019-1446, CVE-2019-1448, CVE-2019-1449

MSFT: MS19-4484113, MS19-4484119, MS19-4484127, MS19-4484148, MS19-4484152, MS19-4484160

MSKB: 4484113, 4484119, 4484127, 4484148, 4484152, 4484160