Summary
Impact: Spoofing. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
Exploitation of the vulnerability requires that a user open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft OneNote and then click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H) but have no effect on integrity (I:N) or on availability (A:N). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability enables an attacker to obtain a victim's NetNTLMv2 hashes thus impact to Confidentiality is High. Integrity and Availability are not impacted because the hashes do not directly enable an attacker to modify data or impact the victim's application or server runtime.
Security updates
16.0.14326.21450 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/current-channel
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.5
Microsoft OneNote Spoofing Vulnerability
Microsoft OneNote Spoofing Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
Added an FAQ. This is an information change only.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-33140 Microsoft OneNote Spoofing Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-33140
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Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
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Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
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Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss