Use after free in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.

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-2025-24075, CVE-2025-24081, CVE-2025-24082)

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 march-11-2025 advisory.

  - Untrusted pointer dereference in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
    (CVE-2025-24083)

  - Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code     locally. (CVE-2025-24075)

  - Use after free in Microsoft Office Excel allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
    (CVE-2025-24081, CVE-2025-24082)

  - Use after free in Microsoft Office Word allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
    (CVE-2025-24077, CVE-2025-24078, CVE-2025-24079)

  - Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code locally.
    (CVE-2025-24057)

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-2025-24075, CVE-2025-24081, CVE-2025-24082)

The Microsoft Excel Products are missing a security update. They are, 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
232742	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products C2R (March 2025)	Nessus	Windows	high
232630	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products (March 2025) (macOS)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	high
232618	Security Updates for Microsoft Office Online Server (March 2025)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high
232614	Security Updates for Microsoft Excel Products (March 2025)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	high

Detections

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CVE-2025-24081

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Tenable Plugins

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