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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (August 2022)

high Nessus Plugin ID 163950

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Office Products are affected by a remote code execution vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability:

 - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-34717)

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 the following security updates to address this issue:
-KB4462148
 -KB4462142

For Office 365, Office 2016 C2R, or Office 2019, ensure automatic updates are enabled or open any office app and manually perform an update.

See Also

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462148

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4462142

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 163950

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_aug_office.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 8/9/2022

Updated: 12/7/2022

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-34717

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/9/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-34717

IAVA: 2022-A-0316-S

MSFT: MS22-4462142, MS22-4462148

MSKB: 4462142, 4462148