PT-2024-1813 · Microsoft · Office Word

Published 2024-02-13 · Updated 2024-09-13 · CVE-2024-21379

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Office Word (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to insufficient input validation in Microsoft Word, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. User interaction is required, where the target must visit a malicious site or open a malicious file to exploit this issue. The vulnerability is associated with the parsing of PDF files and can lead to an out-of-bounds write, enabling remote code execution.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Integer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-190

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2024-01556

CVE-2024-21379

ZDI-24-164

Affected Products

Office Word

References · 11

• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/704903 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-21379 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2024-01556 · Security Note
• https://safe-surf.ru/upload/VULN-new/VULN.2024-02-16.1.pdf · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21379 · Security Note
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-24-164 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21379 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/72830 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/KorbenD_Intel/status/1757509147682132433 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/SystemTek_UK/status/1834653386202857546 · Twitter Post