CVE-2023-33148Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Office 365 Version 18.2305.1222.0 - Elevation of Privilege + RCE. (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 51609remote, multiplepublished 20 Jul 2023Not verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
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Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 55 days later
· 55 days later
Published
- 20 months later
· 20 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoftCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R)
- affected 15.0.0.0 – < 15.0.5571.1000
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2019
- affected 19.0.0 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
- affected 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC 2021
- affected 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
References
References3
- Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/173591/Microsoft-Office-365-18.2305.1222.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://packetstorm.news/files/id/173591 (opens in a new tab)exploit
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-37333 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-33148)Record last updated .