Detections
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MS15-033: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (3048019)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 82768
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Synopsis
An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.Description
The remote Mac OS X host has a version of Microsoft Outlook for Mac for Office 365 installed that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability due to improper sanitization of HTML strings.A remote attacker can exploit this issue by convincing a user to open a file or visit a website containing specially crafted content, resulting in execution of arbitrary code in the context of the current user.
Solution
Microsoft has released a patch for Outlook for Mac for Office 365.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 82768
File Name: macosx_ms15-033_outlook_for_office365.nasl
Version: 1.14
Type: local
Agent: macosx
Family: MacOS X Local Security Checks
Published: 4/14/2015
Updated: 11/27/2023
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.0
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 4.3
Temporal Score: 3.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Vulnerability Information
CPE: x-cpe:/a:microsoft:outlook_for_mac_for_office_365, cpe:/a:microsoft:office:2011:mac
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 4/14/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/14/2015
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2015-1639
BID: 73991