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CVE-2020-16928 (GCVE-0-2020-16928)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-16 22:17 – Updated: 2024-08-04 13:45
VLAI
Title
Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
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>
CWE
  • Elevation of Privilege
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R) Affected: 15.0.0.0 , < 15.0.5571.1000 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:*:*:*:click-to-run:*:x86:*
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:*:*:*:click-to-run:*:x64:*
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Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019 Affected: 19.0.0 , < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise Affected: 16.0.1 , < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
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Date Public
2020-10-13 07:00
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