Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Released: Sep 12, 2023
Last updated: Oct 17, 2023
- Assigning CNA
- Microsoft
- CVE.org link
- CVE-2023-36761
- Impact
- Information Disclosure
- Max Severity
- Important
- Weakness
- CVSS Source
- Microsoft
- Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 6.5 / 5.9Base score metrics: 6.5 / Temporal score metrics: 5.9
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Exploit Code Maturity
Proof-of-Concept
Remediation Level
Official Fix
Report Confidence
Confirmed
Please see Common Vulnerability Scoring System for more information on the definition of these metrics.
Exploitability
The following table provides an exploitability assessment for this vulnerability at the time of original publication.
- Publicly disclosed
- Yes
- Exploited
- Yes
- Exploitability assessment
- Exploitation Detected
FAQ
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
Exploiting this vulnerability could allow the disclosure of NTLM hashes.
Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
Yes, the Preview Pane is an attack vector.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
A user needs to be tricked into running malicious files.
Acknowledgements
- Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Security Updates
To determine the support lifecycle for your software, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle.
- 15.0.5589.1001
- 15.0.5589.1001
- Security Update
- 15.0.5589.1001
- 16.0.5413.1000
- 16.0.5413.1000
- Security Update
- https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
- Security Update
- https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
- Security Update
- https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
- Security Update
- https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
- Security Update
- https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
- Security Update
- https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Disclaimer
Revisions
Updated one or more CVSS scores for the affected products and added an FAQ explaining the vector string settings. This is an informational change only.
Information published.