MSRC-CVE-2023-36569 — Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

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

Details

What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability?
An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain SYSTEM privileges.

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

Vulnerabilities 1

High 8.4

CVE-2023-36569

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 Microsoft Office 2019

Oct 10, 2023

Revision history

2023-10-10 #1
Information published.

References

CVE-2023-36569 Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36569
Microsoft Exploitability Index
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/msrc/exploitability-index?rtc=1
Microsoft Support Lifecycle
https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
https://www.first.org/cvss