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High MSRC-CVE-2023-33162 1 CVE

Microsoft Excel Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Published Jul 11, 2023 · Updated Jul 11, 2023

Summary

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

Details

According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is local (AV:L). Why does the CVE title indicate that this is information disclosure?
The attack itself is carried out locally. For example, when the score indicates that the Attack Vector is Local and User Interaction is Required, this could describe an exploit in which an attacker, through social engineering, convinces a victim to download and open a specially crafted file from a website which leads to a local attack on their computer which could leak data.

What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could potentially read small portions of heap memory.

Is the Preview Pane an attack vector for this vulnerability?
No, the Preview Pane is not an attack vector.

Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.75.23070901 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
16.0.10400.20000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002421
16.0.5404.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002426
15.0.5571.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002434

Vulnerabilities 1

Revision history

  1. #1

    Information published.

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