<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>

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Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.04749}

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{'score': 0.08331}


Fri, 15 Nov 2024 17:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-11-15T16:55:38.851Z

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

Link: CVE-2020-16955

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-04T13:45:34.890Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-10-16T23:15:16.477

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:07:30.287

Link: CVE-2020-16955

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