CVE-2020-0697High

Microsoft Office Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Published
February 11, 2020
Last Modified
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🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in Microsoft Office OLicenseHeartbeat task, where an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could run this task as SYSTEM. To exploit the vulnerability, an authenticated attacker would need to place a specially crafted file in a specific location, thereby allowing arbitrary file corruption. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how the process validates the log file.

🎯 Affected products2

  • Office 365 ProPlus for 32-bit Systems
  • Office 365 ProPlus for 64-bit Systems

✅ Remediation

KBClick to Run (Security Update)

🔗 References (1)