CVE-2023-36897Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability
- 8.1HighCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 42 days later
· 42 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years 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 | High8.1 | 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 |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.1.
Affected products
Microsoft · Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
- affected 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2019
- affected 19.0.0 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Office LTSC 2021
- affected 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
- affected 15.9.0 – < 15.9.56
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.11 (includes 16.0 - 16.10)
- affected 16.11.0 – < 16.11.29
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.2
- affected 17.2.0 – < 17.2.18
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4
- affected 17.4.0 – < 17.4.10
Microsoft · Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6
- affected 17.6.0 – < 17.6.6
Microsoft · Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime
- affected 10.0.0 – < 10.0.60910
References
References1
- Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime Spoofing Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatchx_transferred
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-2023-40817 (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-2023-36897)Record last updated .