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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (October 2024)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 208290

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Office Products are affected by a spoofing vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates. They are, therefore, affected by a spoofing vulnerability.
An attacker can exploit this to gain access to sensitive data via a third party interaction.

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

Solution

Microsoft has released KB5002635 the to address this issue.

See Also

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/5002635

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 208290

File Name: smb_nt_ms24_oct_office.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 10/8/2024

Updated: 10/18/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment 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-2024-43609

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:office

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/8/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-43609

IAVA: 2024-A-0627

MSFT: MS24-5002635

MSKB: 5002635