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

medium Nessus Plugin ID 159181

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Office product installed on the remote host is affected by a tampering vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Office product installed on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by a tampering vulnerability in Microsoft Office Word.

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?7ef79f73

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 159181

File Name: macos_ms22_mar_office.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 3/23/2022

Updated: 11/3/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1.9

Temporal Score: 1.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24511

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

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 Word

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24511

IAVA: 2022-A-0108-S