Six popular Microsoft apps for the Mac have security vulnerabilities that could allow a hacker to “gain any privileges already granted to the affected Microsoft applications,” according to a report by Cisco Talos. The apps affected are Microsoft Excel, OneNote, Outlook, PowerPoint, Teams, and Word. Microsoft runs an entitlement that disables macOS’s hardened runtime, which provides security against Dynamically Linked Library hacks. This can allow a hacker to install malicious software into Microsoft’s apps. “The attacker could send emails from the
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