Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability (Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R))

CVE-2020-1581
HIGH 7.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 3.72 % · percentile 90 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0HIGH 9.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:CNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R)affected 15.0.0.0 < 15.0.5571.1000
Microsoft · Microsoft Office 2019affected 19.0.0 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases
Microsoft · Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterpriseaffected 16.0.1 < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleases

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD