Security Updates for Microsoft Visual Studio Office Tools (August 2023)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179644

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are affected by a spoofing vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Visual Studio Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by
- Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability. (CVE-2023-36897) 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:
- Update 15.9.56 for Visual Studio 2017
- Update 16.11.29 for Visual Studio 2019
- Update 17.2.18 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.4.10 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.6.6 for Visual Studio 2022
- Update 17.7 for Visual Studio 2022

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179644

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_aug_visual_studio_office_tools.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows : Microsoft Bulletins

Published: 8/10/2023

Updated: 9/18/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36897

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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:visual_studio

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible, SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Microsoft Visual Studio

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/8/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/8/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36897

IAVA: 2023-A-0415-S, 2023-A-0419-S

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