Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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

  - A remote code execution vulnerabilities. An attacker can exploit these to bypass authentication and     execute unauthorized arbitrary commands. (CVE-2022-38048, CVE-2022-41031)

  - A information disclosure vulnerability in Excel. An attacker who exploited the vulnerability could use     the information together with other vulnerabilities in order to compromise the user’s computer or data.     (CVE-2022-41043)

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

The Microsoft Word Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. Unauthenticated attackers can exploit these to execute code on the affected system.

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. An attacker can exploit this to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
166102	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (Oct 2022) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	low
166060	Security Updates for Microsoft Word Products C2R (October 2022)	Nessus	Windows	high
166037	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (October 2022)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2022-38048

high

Tenable Plugins

low

high

high