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Unscored CVE-2020-1581 EUVD-2020-12454GHSA-wpjv-j566-pfwc

Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Aug 17, 2020 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by microsoft

Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges. The attacker would need to already have the ability to execute code on the system.
An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle objects in memory.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R) 15.0.0.0 – < 15.0.5571.1000 15.0.5571.1000
Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019 19.0.0 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise 16.0.1 – < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases

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