User-assisted security feature bypass
Published Jul 11, 2023 · Updated Feb 28, 2025
Security feature bypass in Microsoft Office products allows remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The public advisory identifies only a protection-mechanism failure and does not name the affected component or incorrect operation. Exploitation requires user interaction with attacker-controlled content; Microsoft has not disclosed the bypassed control or triggering input.
Summary
What happened
Security feature bypass in Microsoft Office products allows remote attackers to compromise confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The public advisory identifies only a protection-mechanism failure and does not name the affected component or incorrect operation. Exploitation requires user interaction with attacker-controlled content; Microsoft has not disclosed the bypassed control or triggering input.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2023-33150
- Published
- Jul 11, 2023
- Updated
- Feb 28, 2025
- Vendor
- Microsoft
- Product
- Microsoft Office 2019
- Classifications
- CWE-693
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jul 11, 2023CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 28, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=19.0.0 <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
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