CVE-2020-16928

Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Oct 16, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Aug 4, 2020

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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>

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R)Microsoft
  • 15.0.0.0 to before 15.0.5571.1000Affected
Microsoft Office 2019Microsoft
  • 19.0.0 to before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesAffected
Microsoft 365 Apps for EnterpriseMicrosoft
  • 16.0.1 to before https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesAffected

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