Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability? No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is information disclosure? The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the Attack Vector is Local and User Interaction is Required, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer which could leak data.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability? The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is sensitive information.
🎯 Affected products14
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit Systems
- Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit Systems
- Microsoft Excel 2013 RT Service Pack 1
- Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 (32-bit editions)
- Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1 (64-bit editions)
- Microsoft Excel 2016 (32-bit edition)
- Microsoft Excel 2016 (64-bit edition)
- Microsoft Office 2019 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office 2019 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021
- Microsoft Office Online Server
✅ Remediation
KBClick to Run (Security Update) — fixed build https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.77.23091003 KB5002470 (Security Update) — fixed build 16.0.10402.20000 KB5002496 (Security Update) — fixed build 16.0.5413.1000 KB5002488 (Security Update) — fixed build 15.0.5589.1000
🔗 References (11)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36766
- referencehttps://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
- patchhttps://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=4a7f48b2-1e91-4202-a941-a7b5ac30728a
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002470
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=3a0fc2c5-86d0-4c88-a1a6-d4e137779cb2
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002496
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=9185ae15-6f95-4b15-b172-92bb529c3b92
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002488
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=53f7bf82-565c-4ca4-9dfb-a04d4dde2894
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=6e136428-1828-4805-bb2a-4983b33eef6e