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Fencer Vulns
high 8.1

CVE-2023-36897 json

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability

published 2023-08-08 3 y ago modified 2026-08-10 2 mo ago also EUVD-2023-40817

cvss
8.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability

Patch / fix

  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8) 15.9.56
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10) 16.11.29
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2 17.2.18
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 17.4.10
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 17.6.6
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime 10.0.60910

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.68% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

  • Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
  • Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019
  • Microsoft Microsoft Office LTSC 2021
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
  • Microsoft Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
  • Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.