CVE-2012-1894

Published Jul 10, 2012

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

Description: Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 uses world-writable permissions for the "Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/" directory and certain other directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse executable file in one of these directories, aka "Office for Mac Improper Folder Permissions Vulnerability."
Source: secure@microsoft.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.9
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 3.4
Vector string: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-264

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "0D84FC39-29AA-4EF2-ACE7-E72635126F2B"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References