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CVE-2024-20673 (GCVE-0-2024-20673)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-02-13 18:02 – Updated: 2026-08-10 17:52
VLAI
Title
Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Summary
Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-02-16 19:36 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-693 - Protection Mechanism Failure
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Microsoft Microsoft Excel 2016 Affected: 16.0.0.0 , < 16.0.5435.1000 (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft Office 2016 Affected: 16.0.0 , < 16.0.5435.1001 (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019 Affected: 19.0.0 , < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft Office LTSC 2021 Affected: 16.0.1 , < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft PowerPoint 2016 Affected: 16.0.0 , < 16.0.5435.1000 (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft Publisher 2016 Affected: 16.0.0 , < 16.0.5435.1000 (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft Visio 2016 Affected: 16.0.1 , < 16.0.5435.1000 (custom)
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Microsoft Microsoft Word 2016 Affected: 16.0.1 , < 16.0.5435.1000 (custom)
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Microsoft Skype for Business 2016 Affected: 0 , < 16.0.5435.1000 (custom)
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Date Public
2024-02-13 08:00
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