CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path in Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (CVE-2024-43616)
Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
CVE-2024-43616 is an untrusted search path vulnerability (CWE-426) in Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (version 16.0.1). This vulnerability can be exploited to achieve remote code execution, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 7.8 (High), with attack vector local, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and unchanged scope. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability and manages remediation for this cloud-hosted service.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely, leading to full compromise of the affected Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise environment. This impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system and data.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft for this vulnerability. Since this is a cloud service, Microsoft manages remediation server-side. Users should ensure their Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise installations are updated to the fixed version as per Microsoft's advisory.
CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path in Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (CVE-2024-43616)
Description
Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.8high
Affected software
Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
CVE-2024-43616 is an untrusted search path vulnerability (CWE-426) in Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise (version 16.0.1). This vulnerability can be exploited to achieve remote code execution, impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The CVSS 3.1 base score is 7.8 (High), with attack vector local, low attack complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required, and unchanged scope. Microsoft has released an official fix for this vulnerability and manages remediation for this cloud-hosted service.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code remotely, leading to full compromise of the affected Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise environment. This impacts confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the system and data.
Mitigation Recommendations
An official fix is available from Microsoft for this vulnerability. Since this is a cloud service, Microsoft manages remediation server-side. Users should ensure their Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise installations are updated to the fixed version as per Microsoft's advisory.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- microsoft
- Date Reserved
- 2024-08-14T01:08:33.553Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- official-fix
- Is Cloud Service
- true
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
Threat ID: 6a2867268dd33fbd8572322c
Added to database: 06/09/2026, 19:19:02 UTC
Last enriched: 06/09/2026, 19:41:25 UTC
Last updated: 07/26/2026, 22:16:34 UTC
Views: 41
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