Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

The Microsoft Excel Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerabilities:

  - Microsoft Office is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability. (CVE-2025-21354, CVE-2025-21362,     CVE-2025-21394, CVE-2025-21386, CVE-2025-21390, CVE-2025-21387, CVE-2025-21381)   
  - Microsoft Office is affected by a security feature bypass vulnerability. (CVE-2025-21364)   
  - Microsoft Office is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability. (CVE-2025-21383)

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 february-11-2025 advisory.

  - Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-21381, CVE-2025-21386, CVE-2025-21387,     CVE-2025-21390, CVE-2025-21394)

  - Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-21383)

  - Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2025-21392)

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 Online Server 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-2025-21381, CVE-2025-21386, CVE-2025-21387, CVE-2025-21390,     CVE-2025-21394)

The Microsoft Excel Products are missing a security update. It is, therefore, affected by multiple remote code execution vulnerabilities. An attacker can exploit these to bypass authentication and execute unauthorized arbitrary commands.

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
216321	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products C2R (February 2025)	Nessus	Windows	high
216143	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (February 2025) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
216138	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Online Server (February 2025)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
216133	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (February 2025)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

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CVE-2025-21386

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