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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Microsoft Excel. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2023-23396. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Microsoft Excel (Spreadsheet Software) (the affected version is unknown). This issue affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability.

The weakness was released 03/14/2023 as confirmed security guidance (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2023-23396. 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 T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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• Spreadsheet Software

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• Microsoft

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• Excel

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

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