Summary
Impact: Security Feature Bypass. Microsoft rating: Important. Not known to be exploited — Exploitation Less Likely. Customer action: Required.
Details
What kind of security feature could be bypassed by successfully exploiting this vulnerability?
Opening a malicious file could bypass the Microsoft Office Trust Center external links check. External links can include Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and/or references to other workbooks. See Block or unblock external content in Office documents - Microsoft Support for descriptions of related Trust Center settings.
According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?
An attacker must send the user a malicious file and convince them to open it.
According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to major loss of confidentiality (C:H), integrity (I:H), and availability (A:H). What does that mean for this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain high privileges, which include read, write, and delete functionality.
Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
16.79.23111019 — https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=831049
16.0.5422.1000 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5002518
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.8
Microsoft Excel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Microsoft Excel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
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References
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CVE-2023-36037 Microsoft Excel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36037
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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