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?
The user would have to click on install to be compromised by the attacker.
How could an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An unauthenticated attacker could bypass validation as a trusted source through a crafted certificate that could mislead a user to believing the file they are installing is legitimate.
Security updates
https — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/microsoft365-apps-security-updates
15.9.56 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releasenotes/vs2017-relnotes
17.2.18 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
16.11.29 — https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes-v16.11
17.4.10 — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes
10.0.60910 — https://support.microsoft.com/help/5029497
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 8.1
Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability
Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability
Revision history
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#2
In the Security Updates table, added the Download link for Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime.
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#1
Information published.
References
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CVE-2023-36897 Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability - HTML
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36897
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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