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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office up to 2019 (Office Suite Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Excel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
The bug was discovered 11/13/2018. The weakness was released 11/13/2018 with Microsoft as confirmed security update guide (Website). The advisory is shared for download at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The public release was coordinated with the vendor. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2018-8577 since 03/14/2018. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The advisory points out:
A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Microsoft Excel software when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system. An attacker could then install programs; view, change, or delete data; or create new accounts with full user rights. Users whose accounts are configured to have fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted than users who operate with administrative user rights.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 118927 (Security Updates for Microsoft Office Web Apps (November 2018)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110325 (Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps Security Update November 2018).
Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (118927). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at 126715, 126717, 126726 and 126727.
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Memory corruptionCWE: CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
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Nessus ID: 118927
Nessus Name: Security Updates for Microsoft Office Web Apps (November 2018)
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Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: portal.msrc.microsoft.com
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2018-8577 (🔍)
SecurityTracker: 1042134
SecurityFocus: 105834 - Microsoft Excel CVE-2018-8577 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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Entry
Created: 11/14/2018 08:14Updated: 06/06/2023 06:52
Changes: 11/14/2018 08:14 (75), 04/12/2020 08:57 (6), 06/06/2023 06:52 (5)
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