Summary
Impact: Information Disclosure. 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?
A user needs to be tricked into running malicious files.
What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?
The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is unauthorized file system access - reading from the file system.
Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.80.23121017 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
16.0.5426.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002520
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 5.5
Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Revision history
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References
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CVE-2023-36009 Microsoft Word Information Disclosure Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36009
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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