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Security Updates for Microsoft Office Products C2R (May 2022)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 162097

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Synopsis

The Microsoft Office Products are affected by a security feature bypass vulnerability.

Description

The Microsoft Office Products are missing security updates. It is, therefore, affected by the following vulnerability:
 - 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-2022-29107)

Solution

Microsoft has released patches to address these issues.

For Office 365, Office 2016 C2R, Office 2019 or 2021, ensure automatic updates are enabled or open any office app and manually perform an update.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fd4508ff

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 162097

File Name: smb_nt_ms22_may_office_c2r.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 6/10/2022

Updated: 1/7/2026

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-29107

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-29107

IAVA: 2022-A-0195-S