Microsoft Office 2011 on Mac cross site scripting

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Microsoft Office 2011 on Mac (Office Suite Software). This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors, aka "Microsoft Outlook App for Mac XSS Vulnerability."

The weakness was published 04/14/2015 with Microsoft as MS15-033 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). It is possible to read the advisory at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2015-1639 since 02/17/2015. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 82768 , which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is . The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110252 (Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS15-033)).

Applying the patch MS15-033 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (82768). Similar entries are available at 74837, 74844, 74845 and 74846.

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Class: Cross site scripting
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS15-033
Organization: Microsoft
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2015-1639 (🔍)
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SecurityTracker: 1032104 - Microsoft Office Memory Errors Let Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Input Validation Flaw Permits Cross-Site Scripting Attacks
Vulnerability Center: 49604 - [MS15-033] Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 Remote XSS Vulnerability - CVE-2015-1639, Medium
SecurityFocus: 73991 - Microsoft Outlook App for Mac CVE-2015-1639 Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

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Created: 04/15/2015 10:33
Updated: 05/06/2022 08:51
Changes: 04/15/2015 10:33 (72), 06/26/2017 09:14 (4), 05/06/2022 08:51 (3)
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