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CVE-2023-36897

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-36897 is a spoofing vulnerability in Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime, affecting various Microsoft products including Microsoft 365 Apps and Visual Studio versions. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 6.5), it requires user interaction (UI:R) for exploitation, allowing an attacker to achieve high integrity impact (I:H) without confidentiality or availability impact. While not actively exploited (KEV: No) and lacking public exploit code, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:x64:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:x86:*
2019CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*
2019CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:*:x86:*
2021CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_long_term_servicing_channel:2021:*:*:*:*:*:x64:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
73.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0162 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 26,221 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (13)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2019 for 32-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office 2019 for 64-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 32-bit SystemsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise for 64-bit SystemsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 64-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 for 32-bit editionsFixed in: https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)Fixed in: 15.9.56
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2Fixed in: 17.2.18
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)Fixed in: 16.11.29
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4Fixed in: 17.4.10
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6Fixed in: 17.6.6
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microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office RuntimeFixed in: 10.0.60910
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Aug/CVE-2023-36897Important

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability

Aug 8, 2023

References

msrc.microsoft.com / update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-36897
PatchVendor Advisory