Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability does not impact confidentiality (C:N), or integrity (I:N), but has a high impact on availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability? An attacker who successfully exploits this vulnerability cannot access or modify any sensitive user data but can cause user data to become unavailable.
According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is a remote code execution? The word Remote in the title refers to the location of the attacker. This type of exploit is sometimes referred to as Arbitrary Code Execution (ACE). The attack itself is carried out locally. This means an attacker or victim needs to execute code from the local machine to exploit the vulnerability.
Is the Attachment Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability? Yes. The attachment Preview Pane that is accessed when a user clicks to preview an attached file is an attack vector; however, the email Preview Pane itself is not.
🎯 Affected products14
- 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
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 32-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC 2024 for 64-bit editions
- Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021
- Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2024
- Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016
- Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019
- Microsoft Word 2016 (32-bit edition)
- Microsoft Word 2016 (64-bit edition)
✅ Remediation
KB5002659 (Security Update) — fixed build 16.0.5478.1000 KB5002657 (Security Update) — fixed build 16.0.10416.20026 KBClick to Run (Security Update) — fixed build https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases KBRelease Notes (Security Update) — fixed build 16.92.24120731 KB5002661 (Security Update) — fixed build 16.0.5478.1000
🔗 References (10)
- advisoryhttps://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-49065
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=789b67f7-203e-4872-a698-3bc0e01f9daa
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002659
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=e71e3889-da21-4ab0-941e-6e9cbfbb986e
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002657
- 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=e4aa2894-fae7-4308-ab83-ed79d9f021cf
- referencehttps://support.microsoft.com/help/5002661
- patchhttps://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?familyid=e8026839-4592-457d-b42f-63532bfd443a