CVE-2023-36568HighCVSS 7.0

Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
October 10, 2023
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2023-36568 →

📋 Description

According to the CVSS metric, privileges required is low (PR:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Any authenticated user could trigger this vulnerability. It does not require admin or other elevated privileges.

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain administrator privileges.

According to the CVSS metric, the attack complexity is high (AC:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires an attacker to perform file operations at a specific time on the machine with the duration of a few seconds.

🎯 Affected products6

  • Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit Systems
  • Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit Systems
  • Microsoft Office 2019 for 32-bit editions
  • Microsoft Office 2019 for 64-bit editions
  • Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editions
  • Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editions

✅ Remediation

KBClick to Run (Security Update) — fixed build https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases

🔗 References (2)