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CVE-2023-33148: Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute RPC functions that are restricted to local clients only.

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CVE-2023-33150: Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?** Exploitation of the vulnerability requires the victim to open a specially crafted file and click through Office Security Prompt(s). An attacker would have no way to force users to open the file., * In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. * In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability.

CVE-2023-36884: Office and Windows HTML Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

* Customers who use Microsoft Defender for Office are protected from attachments that attempt to exploit this vulnerability. * In current attack chains, the use of the Block all Office applications from creating child processes Attack Surface Reduction Rule will prevent the vulnerability from being exploited. * Organizations who cannot take advantage of these protections can set the FEATURE\_BLOCK\_CROSS\_PROTOCOL\_FILE\_NAVIGATION registry key to avoid exploitation. Please note that while these registry settings would mitigate exploitation of this issue, it could affect regular functionality for certain use cases related to these applications. Add the following application names to this registry key as values of type REG\_DWORD with data 1.: Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_CROSS_PROTOCOL_FILE_NAVIGATION * Excel.exe * Graph.exe * MSAccess.exe * MSPub.exe * PowerPoint.exe * Visio.exe * WinP...

CVE-2023-33150: Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

**According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do?** Exploitation of the vulnerability requires the victim to open a specially crafted file and click through Office Security Prompt(s). An attacker would have no way to force users to open the file., * In an email attack scenario, an attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending the specially crafted file to the user and convincing the user to open the file. * In a web-based attack scenario, an attacker could host a website (or leverage a compromised website that accepts or hosts user-provided content) containing a specially crafted file designed to exploit the vulnerability.

CVE-2023-33148: Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

**What privileges could be gained by an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability?** An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute RPC functions that are restricted to local clients only.

CVE-2023-21714: Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability

**What type of information could be disclosed by this vulnerability?** The type of information that could be disclosed if an attacker successfully exploited this vulnerability is uninitialized memory.