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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (Jan 2024) (macOS)

high Nessus Plugin ID 189075

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Synopsis

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

Description

The version of Microsoft Office for Mac installed on the remote host is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the january-16-2024 advisory.

 - <p>A security vulnerability exists in FBX that could lead to remote code execution. To mitigate this vulnerability, the ability to insert FBX files has been disabled in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook for Windows and Mac. Versions of Office that had this feature enabled will no longer have access to it.
 This includes Office 2019, Office 2021, Office LTSC for Mac 2021, and Microsoft 365.</p> <p>3D models in Office documents that were previously inserted from a FBX file will continue to work as expected unless the Link to File option was chosen at insert time.</p> <p>This change is effective as of the January 9, 2024 security update.</p> (CVE-2024-20677)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update to Office for Mac version 16.81 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?3ee5d75d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 189075

File Name: macos_ms24_jan_office.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 1/16/2024

Updated: 1/16/2024

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: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-20677

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

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:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Required KB Items: Host/MacOSX/Version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/16/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/9/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-20677