Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability

Security Vulnerability

Released: Aug 8, 2023

Last updated: Aug 15, 2023

Assigning CNA
Microsoft
CVE.org link
CVE-2023-36897
Impact
Spoofing
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:H/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

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
No
Exploited
No
Exploitability assessment
Exploitation Less Likely

FAQ

According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?

The user would have to click on install to be compromised by the attacker.

How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?

An unauthenticated attacker could bypass validation as a trusted source through a crafted certificate that could mislead a user to believing the file they are installing is legitimate.

Acknowledgements

  • Bill Demirkapi with Microsoft
Microsoft recognizes the efforts of those in the security community who help us protect customers through coordinated vulnerability disclosure. See Acknowledgements for more information.

Security Updates

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