MS13-043: Vulnerability in Microsoft Word Could Allow Remote Code Execution (2830399)

high Nessus Plugin ID 66418

Synopsis

A Microsoft Office component installed on the remote host is affected by a code execution vulnerability.

Description

The version of Office and/or Microsoft Word Viewer installed on the remote host is affected by a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way that Microsoft Word parses content in Word files. To exploit this issue, an attacker would need to trick a user into opening a specially crafted file or email message with an affected version of Microsoft Office software.

Solution

Microsoft has released a set of patches for Office 2003 and Microsoft Word Viewer.

See Also

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/SecurityBulletins/2013/ms13-043

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 66418

File Name: smb_nt_ms13-043.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: windows

Published: 5/15/2013

Updated: 11/15/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 6.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:microsoft:office, cpe:/a:microsoft:word_viewer

Required KB Items: SMB/MS_Bulletin_Checks/Possible

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-1335

BID: 59759

MSFT: MS13-043

MSKB: 2810046, 2817361