Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

The Microsoft Office Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities, as follows:

  - A heap buffer overflow. (CVE-2023-27911)

  - A security feature bypass. (CVE-2023-36767)

  - A spoofing vulnerability. (CVE-2023-41764)

  - An elevation of privilege vulnerability. (CVE-2023-36765)

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

The version of Microsoft Office for Mac installed on the remote host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the september-12-2023 advisory.

  - Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2023-36766)

  - Microsoft Word Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2023-36762)

  - Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability (CVE-2023-36767)

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

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

  - A security feature bypass vulnerability exists. An     attacker can exploit this and bypass the security     feature and perform unauthorized actions compromising     the integrity of the system/application.
    (CVE-2023-36767)

  - A session spoofing vulnerability exists. An attacker can     exploit this to perform actions with the privileges of     another user. (CVE-2023-41764)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
181345	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products C2R Multiple Vulnerabilities (September 2023)	Nessus	Windows	critical
181321	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (Sep 2023) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
181295	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (September 2023)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2023-36767

medium

Tenable Plugins

critical

high

medium