Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Summary

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.

Timeline

1. Aug 17, 2020, 7:13 PM UTCCVE published
2. Aug 4, 2024, 6:39 AM UTCRecord last updated

Affected versions

• Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R)

  From 15.0.0.0 · fixed in 15.0.5571.1000

• Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019

  From 19.0.0

• Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise

  From 16.0.1

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