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Microsoft Excel Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability

CVE-2021-42292 is a security feature bypass vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel (rated Important, CVSS 7.8). Microsoft reports that it is being exploited.

Exploited1 version

Facts

Microsoft id
CVE-2021-42292
Status
Exploited
Products
Microsoft Office Excel
Severity
Important
Impact
Security Feature Bypass
CVSS
7.8
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Exploited
Yes
Publicly disclosed
No
Exploitability
Exploitation Detected
Customer action required
Yes
Release
2021-Nov
Assigned by
Microsoft
MSRC revision
2.0
Status pages
Microsoft 365 apps status
First captured by us
(from our first import of this list)
Microsoft last modified
Source
Security updates · open the original at Microsoft

Microsoft's revision notes

  1. Revision 1.0, 2021-11-09: Information published.
  2. Revision 2.0, 2021-11-16: Microsoft is announcing the availability of the security updates for Microsoft Office for Mac.

Microsoft says

Are the updates for the Microsoft Office for Mac currently available?

Security updates,

Read Microsoft's full post

What Microsoft changed

One version so far. If Microsoft edits it, each change shows here with what was removed and added.

  1. First version we captured ·

    As first seen: Exploited
    Status
    Exploited

    Seen by us · Microsoft's timestamp · Microsoft's page

Mentioning the same Microsoft ids

Other changes for Microsoft 365 apps