Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The Microsoft Excel Products are missing security updates.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-31175,     CVE-2021-31177, CVE-2021-31179)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-31174, CVE-2021-31178)

The Microsoft Office product installed on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability in Excel.

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

The Microsoft Office Web Apps installation on the remote host is missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

  - A remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to bypass authentication and execute     unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2021-31175,     CVE-2021-31177, CVE-2021-31179)

  - An information disclosure vulnerability. An attacker can     exploit this to disclose potentially sensitive     information. (CVE-2021-31174, CVE-2021-31178)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
162042	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products C2R (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows	Local	high
149433	Security Updates for Microsoft Office (May 2021) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	Local	high
149397	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	Local	high
149387	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Web Apps (May 2021)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	Local	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2021-31177

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Tenable Plugins

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