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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (February 2022) (macOS)

high Nessus Plugin ID 158219

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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:

 - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-22003)

 - A information disclosure vulnerability in Excel. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use the information together with other vulnerabilities in order to compromise the user’s computer or data. (CVE-2022-22716)

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?4b66b519

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 158219

File Name: macos_ms22_feb_office.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 2/22/2022

Updated: 4/27/2022

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-2022-22003

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-22003, CVE-2022-22716

IAVA: 2022-A-0066-S, 2022-A-0080-S