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Microsoft Office Outlook Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV
2023-03-14
Remediation due
2023-04-04

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23397, https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/microsoft-mitigates-outlook-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability/, ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23397

Description

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CNA9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:F/RL:O/RC:C
SSVC · CISA-ADP
Exploitationactive
Automatableno
Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

VendorProductAffected versions
MicrosoftMicrosoft Office LTSC 2021
16.0.1 to <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
MicrosoftMicrosoft Outlook 2016
16.0.0.0 to <16.0.5387.1000
MicrosoftMicrosoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
16.0.1 to <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
MicrosoftMicrosoft Office 2019
19.0.0 to <https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
MicrosoftMicrosoft Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1
15.0.0.0 to <15.0.5537.1000

References

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Record Details

Published
2023-03-14
Last updated
2025-10-21
Assigner (CNA)
microsoft
Credited to
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