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

high Nessus Plugin ID 148539

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Synopsis

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

Description

The Microsoft Office product installed on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by remote code execution vulnerabilities in Word and Excel as well as an information disclosure in 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?03c94526

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 148539

File Name: macos_ms21_apr_office.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 4/14/2021

Updated: 6/3/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-28453

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:office, cpe:/a:microsoft:word, cpe:/a:microsoft:excel

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/13/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/13/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-28451, CVE-2021-28453, CVE-2021-28456

IAVA: 2021-A-0170-S, 2021-A-0174-S, 2021-A-0177-S