Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability". This CVE is unique from CVE-2018-0805, CVE-2018-0806, and CVE-2018-0807.

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates.
It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in     Microsoft Office software when the software fails to     properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who     successfully exploited the vulnerability could run     arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If     the current user is logged on with administrative user     rights, an attacker could take control of the affected     system. An attacker could then install programs; view,     change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full     user rights.  (CVE-2018-0794, CVE-2018-0795)

  - An Office RTF remote code execution vulnerability exists     in Microsoft Office software when the Office software     fails to properly handle RTF files. An attacker who     successfully exploited the vulnerability could run     arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If     the current user is logged on with administrative user     rights, an attacker could take control of the affected     system. An attacker could then install programs; view,     change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full     user rights.  (CVE-2018-0797)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in     Microsoft Office software when the software fails to     properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who     successfully exploited the vulnerability could run     arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If     the current user is logged on with administrative user     rights, an attacker could take control of the affected     system. An attacker could then install programs; view,     change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full     user rights.  (CVE-2018-0798, CVE-2018-0801,     CVE-2018-0802, CVE-2018-0804, CVE-2018-0805,     CVE-2018-0806, CVE-2018-0807, CVE-2018-0812)

  - A remote code execution vulnerability exists in the way     that Microsoft Outlook parses specially crafted email     messages. An attacker who successfully exploited the     vulnerability could take control of an affected system.
    An attacker could then install programs; view, change,     or delete data; or create new accounts with full user     rights. Exploitation of this vulnerability requires that     a user open a specially crafted file with an affected     version of Microsoft Outlook.  (CVE-2018-0793)

The Microsoft Words Products are missing security updates. It is therefore affected by multiple issues involving handling of Office and RTF (Rich Text Format) files. If successfully exploited, an attacker could execute code in the context of the current user.

The Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack products installed on the remote host are missing security updates.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities :

- A remote code execution vulnerability exists in   Microsoft Office software when the software fails to   properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who   successfully exploited the vulnerability could run   arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
  (CVE-2018-0793, CVE-2018-0794, CVE-2018-0796,   CVE-2018-0798, CVE-2018-0801, CVE-2018-0802,   CVE-2018-0804, CVE-2018-0805, CVE-2018-0806,   CVE-2018-0807, CVE-2018-0812)

- An Office RTF remote code execution vulnerability   exists in Microsoft Office software when the Office   software fails to properly handle RTF files. An   attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability   could run arbitrary code in the context of the current   user. (CVE-2018-0797)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
105728	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (January 2018)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
105700	Security Updates for Microsoft Word Products (January 2018)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
105695	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Compatibility SP3 (January 2018)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-0849

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Tenable Plugins

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