CVE-2023-36568

Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.0 High
Published: Oct 10, 2023
Updated: Apr 14, 2025
Reserved: Jun 23, 2023

Description

Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.0 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C	microsoft

Weaknesses

CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Microsoft Office 2019Microsoft	19.0.0 to before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesAffected
Microsoft 365 Apps for EnterpriseMicrosoft	16.0.1 to before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesAffected
Microsoft Office LTSC 2021Microsoft	16.0.1 to before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesAffected

References

Microsoft Office Click-To-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerabilityvendor-advisory

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