Microsoft Office 2013 Document information disclosure

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Microsoft Office 2013. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Document Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2014-1808. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to implement a patch to correct this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2013 (Office Suite Software). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Document Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. CVE summarizes:

Microsoft Office 2013 Gold, SP1, RT, and RT SP1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive token information via a web site that sends a crafted response during opening of an Office document, aka "Token Reuse Vulnerability."

The issue has been introduced in 10/11/2012. The weakness was presented 05/13/2014 by Arnaud Maillet with ANSSI as MS14-023 as confirmed bulletin (Technet). The advisory is shared for download at technet.microsoft.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-1808 since 01/29/2014. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 579 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73982 (MS14-023: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2961037)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110237 (Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (MS14-023)).

Applying the patch MS14-023 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at technet.microsoft.com. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (73982), SecurityFocus (BID 67298†), Secunia (SA58136†), SecurityTracker (ID 1030230†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-44485†). Additional details are provided at blog.spiderlabs.com. See VDB-13223, VDB-13222, VDB-13226 and VDB-13225 for similar entries. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 73982
Nessus Name: MS14-023: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2961037)
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OpenVAS ID: 804450
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities (2961037)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: MS14-023
Researcher: Arnaud Maillet
Organization: ANSSI
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2014-1808 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-1808
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-13228

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SecurityFocus: 67298
Secunia: 58136 - Microsoft Office Insecure Library Loading and Token Disclosure Two Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
SecurityTracker: 1030230 - Microsoft Office Bugs Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code and Obtain Access Tokens
Vulnerability Center: 44485 - [MS14-023] Microsoft Office 2013 and 2013 RT Remote Information Disclosure via Crafted Document, Medium

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Created: 05/16/2014 23:12
Updated: 06/19/2021 16:50
Changes: 05/16/2014 23:12 (88), 05/28/2017 02:49 (3), 06/19/2021 16:50 (3)
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