Sep 2024: Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
CVE-2024-38226 Published on September 10, 2024
Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Microsoft Publisher Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Microsoft Publisher contains a security feature bypass vulnerability that allows attacker to bypass Office macro policies used to block untrusted or malicious files.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by October 1, 2024: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
Weakness Type
Protection Mechanism Failure
The product does not use or incorrectly uses a protection mechanism that provides sufficient defense against directed attacks against the product. This weakness covers three distinct situations. A "missing" protection mechanism occurs when the application does not define any mechanism against a certain class of attack. An "insufficient" protection mechanism might provide some defenses - for example, against the most common attacks - but it does not protect against everything that is intended. Finally, an "ignored" mechanism occurs when a mechanism is available and in active use within the product, but the developer has not applied it in some code path.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-38226
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Affected Versions
Microsoft Office 2019:- Version 19.0.0 and below https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases is affected.
- Version 16.0.1 and below https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases is affected.
- Version 16.0.0 and below 16.0.5465.1001 is affected.
Exploit Probability
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.