Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing 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
- Metrics
- CVSS:3.1 8.1 / 7.3Base score metrics: 8.1 / Temporal score metrics: 7.3
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
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
- 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
Security Updates
To determine the support lifecycle for your software, see the Microsoft Support Lifecycle.
- 10.0.60910
- 17.6.6
- 17.4.10
- 16.11.29
- 17.2.18
- 15.9.56
- 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
In the Security Updates table, added the Download link for Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime.
Information published.