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Security Updates for Microsoft Office (January 2021) (macOS)

high Nessus Plugin ID 144981

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Office product installed on the remote host is affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities.

Description

The Microsoft Office product installed on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities in Word and Excel.

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

Solution

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

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?43ed1b90

http://www.nessus.org/u?8d578d8a

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 144981

File Name: macos_ms21_jan_office.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 1/14/2021

Updated: 12/7/2022

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-1716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/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:word, cpe:/a:microsoft:office, cpe:/a:microsoft:excel

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-1713, CVE-2021-1714, CVE-2021-1715, CVE-2021-1716

IAVA: 2021-A-0016-S, 2021-A-0024-S