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GSD-2020-16928

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:21
Details
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files, aka 'Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability'. This CVE ID is unique from CVE-2020-16934, CVE-2020-16955.
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