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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (Feb 2023) (macOS)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 171594

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Synopsis

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

Description

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

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?24408e5f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 171594

File Name: macos_ms23_feb_office.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 2/17/2023

Updated: 6/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Critical

Score: 9.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 8.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-21716

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-21716

IAVA: 2023-A-0082-S, 2023-A-0085-S