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High · 7.8 CVE-2020-16955 EUVD-2020-8913GHSA-hfw2-mqmp-j26q

Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published Oct 16, 2020 · Updated Nov 15, 2024 · Assigned by microsoft

Description

<p>An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges.</p>
<p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file.</p>
<p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.</p>

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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