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

high Nessus Plugin ID 166102

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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 vulnerabilities. An attacker can exploit these to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-38048, CVE-2022-41031)

 - 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-2022-41043)

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?2b57ae29

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 166102

File Name: macos_ms22_oct_office.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/13/2022

Updated: 10/9/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.2

Temporal Score: 6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-41031

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7.2

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:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/Version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-38048, CVE-2022-41031, CVE-2022-41043

IAVA: 2022-A-0412-S