CVE-2020-16928 - OpenCVE

<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>

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Microsoft	365 Apps Office

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:365_apps:-::::enterprise:::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013::::click-to-run:::
	cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2019:::::-::

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References

Link	Providers
https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-16928

History

No history.

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published: 2020-10-16T22:17:52

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:45:34.623Z

Reserved: 2020-08-04T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-16928

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-10-16T23:15:15.117

Modified: 2023-12-31T20:15:53.333

Link: CVE-2020-16928

Redhat

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