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Security Updates for Microsoft Word Products (December 2023)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 186780

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Word Products are affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Word Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive information.

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 KB5002520 to address this issue.

See Also

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/5002520

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 186780

File Name: smb_nt_ms23_dec_word.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 12/12/2023

Updated: 1/12/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36009

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:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:word

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-36009

IAVA: 2023-A-0686-S

MSFT: MS23-5002520

MSKB: 5002520