CVE-2020-16928
Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 15.0.5571.1000
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
<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>
Timeline
- CVE published
- Record 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