Patchday: Microsoft Office Updates (April 11, 2023)

Update[German]On April 11, 2023 (second Tuesday of the month, Microsoft Patchday), Microsoft released several security-related updates for still-supported Microsoft Office versions and other products. The April 2023 patchday ends support for Office 2013, and two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities are closed in MS Publisher. Below is an overview of the available updates.


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An overview of the updates can be found on this web page (and here for this month). Details are documented in the linked KB articles. The updates are available for the installable MSI version of Microsoft Office (the click-to-run packages obtain the updates through other channels). Office 2019 does not appear in the list because it is distributed via click-to-run packages and receives security updates via the Office Update feature.

Office 2016

The following security updates have been released for Office 2016.

Publisher 2016: Description of the security update for Publisher 2016: April 11, 2023 (KB5002221); CVSS:3.1 7.8; the security update addresses two remote code execution vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-28287, CVE-2023-28295) in Microsoft Publisher. These are arbitrary code execution (ACE) vulnerabilities, which means that an attacker or victim must execute code on the local machine to exploit the vulnerability. In most cases, the user is tricked into running malicious files.

Details about the Office updates can be found in the linked KB articles.

Office 2013

Office 2013 requires Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2013 to be installed. The following security updates have been released (are the same patches as for Office 2016).

Publisher 2013: Description of the security update for Publisher 2013: April 11, 2023 (KB5002213)

Details about the Office updates can be found in the linked KB articles. This update ends support for Microsoft Office 2013 (and Microsoft Exchange 2013).


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Other updates for Office/SharePoint Server

Microsoft has also released security updates for several versions of Microsoft SharePoint Server.

SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

SharePoint Server 2019

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2016

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013

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