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High MSRC-CVE-2022-24511 1 CVE

Microsoft Office Word Tampering Vulnerability

Published Mar 8, 2022 · Updated Mar 16, 2022 · Revision 2

Vendor: Microsoft

Summary

Impact: Tampering. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.

Details

If the preview pane is an attack vector, why is the severity for this vulnerability Important and not Critical?
Even though the preview pane is an attack vector, the attacker cannot achieve remote code execution if they successfully exploit the vulnerability, but can only gain information from the victim.

Are the updates for the Microsoft Office for Mac currently available?
The security update for Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac and Microsoft Office LTSC for Mac 2021 are not immediately available. The updates will be released as soon as possible, and when they are available, customers will be notified via a revision to this CVE information.

Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.59.22031300 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
16.0.5290.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002139
15.0.5431.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/kb/5002068

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #2

    Microsoft is announcing the availability of the security updates for Microsoft Office for Mac. Customers running affected Mac software should install the update for their product to be protected from this vulnerability. Customers running other Microsoft Office software do not need to take any action. See the [Release Notes](https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049) for more information and download links.

  2. #1

    Information published.

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