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

CVE-2020-16934
HIGH 7.0

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 2.68 % · percentile 86 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
microsoft
NVD status
Modified

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>

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:Cmicrosoft
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.0CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · secure@microsoft.com (Secondary)
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 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · 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