KEVIntel
9.8
CVSS
Critical

CVE-2023-23397

PUBLISHED

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Microsoft Office LTSC 2021, Microsoft Outlook 2016, Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise, Microsoft Office 2019, Microsoft Outlook 2013 Service Pack 1
Published
Mar 14, 2023
EPSS
93.4% · 100% pctl

Description

Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

cisa microsoft nessus_scanner

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 9.8 Critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2023-03-14 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation
active
Automatable
No
Technical impact
total

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source Added
CISA Mar 14, 2023
Tenable Blog Jun 02, 2026

Scanner integrations

Scanner Reference Detected
Nessus https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/172607 Jun 02, 2025

Recent mentions

Inside the customer environment: Where threat actors, vulnerabilities, and exposed assets intersect

Tenable Blog · May 27, 2026

Tenable Research has developed a graph-based model linking 600+ threat groups to real-world customer exposures. It reveals which vulnerabilities sit at the intersection of severity, active exploitation, and organizational risk.Key takeawaysThe "patch everything" strategy is dead: Vulnerability prioritization based on exploitation risk offers a path forward. A directed graph model linking 600+ threat actors to vulnerabilities in 7,800 customer environments reveals that 68% of organizations carry at least one CVE previously exploited by a named adversary, and 321 tracked threat groups can reach at least one customer environment through an active vulnerability. Prevalence of "Elite Arsenal" CVEs requires immediate attention: The 242 "Elite Arsenal" CVEs — those meeting all three criteria of critical VPR (≥ 9), CISA KEV listing, and documented threat group exploitation — are nearly universally present across the studied customer base, with 241 of 242 actively detected. More than half are five or more years old, and 78% of the persistently exploited core are simultaneously weaponized by nation-state APTs, commodity malware operators, and ransomware gangs. Non-CVE exposures are universally dangerous: Non-CVE exposures, including misconfigurations, weak credentials, and end-of-life software, are present in virtually 100% of studied organizations, with 60% carrying at least one that maps to a tracked threat actor's preferred techniques. Preliminary modeling suggests these exposures may confer more breach risk than CVE-linked findings, yet no industry-standard scoring infrastructure exists to prioritize them.While the first two posts in this blog series documented the accelerating vulnerability flood and the widening remediation gap, today we answer the outstanding question: Where do these forces actually collide inside customer environments? Using a directed graph model that maps more than 600 tracked threat groups to vulnerabilities observed across 7,800 organizations,...

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

Symbolexe/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2024-06-22 14:25:39 UTC · 0 stars

CVE-2023-23397: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook

Pushkarup/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-10-26 09:26:32 UTC · 3 stars

This script exploits CVE-2023-23397, a Zero-Day vulnerability in Microsoft Outlook, allowing the generation of malicious emails for testing and educational purposes.

Muhammad-Ali007/OutlookNTLM_CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-07-14 22:02:55 UTC · 21 stars

vlad-a-man/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-05-07 18:21:35 UTC · 6 stars

CVE-2023-23397 PoC

AiK1d/CVE-2023-23397-POC

github · Created 2023-03-31 03:35:30 UTC · 3 stars

CVE-2023-23397漏洞的简单PoC,有效载荷通过电子邮件发送。

tiepologian/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-03-21 18:38:00 UTC · 25 stars

Proof of Concept for CVE-2023-23397 in Python

Trackflaw/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-03-20 16:31:54 UTC · 123 stars

Simple PoC of the CVE-2023-23397 vulnerability with the payload sent by email.

ahmedkhlief/CVE-2023-23397-POC-Using-Interop-Outlook

github · Created 2023-03-19 08:07:58 UTC · 2 stars

djackreuter/CVE-2023-23397-PoC

github · Created 2023-03-18 21:14:21 UTC · 9 stars

BillSkiCO/CVE-2023-23397_EXPLOIT

github · Created 2023-03-17 17:35:14 UTC · 7 stars

Generates meeting requests taking advantage of CVE-2023-23397. This requires the outlook thick client to send.

ahmedkhlief/CVE-2023-23397-POC

github · Created 2023-03-17 10:18:26 UTC · 6 stars

Exploit POC for CVE-2023-23397

im007/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-03-17 03:38:50 UTC · 0 stars

CVE-2023-23397 Remediation Script (Powershell)

api0cradle/CVE-2023-23397-POC-Powershell

github · Created 2023-03-16 19:43:39 UTC · 344 stars

ka7ana/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-03-16 19:10:37 UTC · 40 stars

Simple PoC in PowerShell for CVE-2023-23397

grn-bogo/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-03-16 15:00:26 UTC · 4 stars

Python script to create a message with the vulenrability properties set

alicangnll/CVE-2023-23397

github · Created 2023-03-16 14:07:15 UTC · 3 stars

CVE-2023-23397 - Microsoft Outlook Vulnerability

sqrtZeroKnowledge/CVE-2023-23397_EXPLOIT_0DAY

github · Created 2023-03-15 17:03:38 UTC · 161 stars

Exploit for the CVE-2023-23397

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • Added to KEVIntel

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Detected by Nessus

  • Added to KEVIntel