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

high Nessus Plugin ID 155448

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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 affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as follows:

 - A remote code execution vulnerability in Excel that can be exploited by an unauthenticated, local attacker. (CVE-2021-40442)

 - A security feature bypass vulnerability in Excel that can be exploited by an unauthenticated, local attacker. (CVE-2021-42292)

 Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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?945bbaf2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 155448

File Name: macos_ms21_nov_office.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 11/17/2021

Updated: 4/1/2024

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: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-42292

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.5

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:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/Version, installed_sw/Microsoft Excel

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/16/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/9/2021

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability Due Dates: 12/1/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-40442, CVE-2021-42292

IAVA: 2021-A-0541-S, 2021-A-0546-S