Description
An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges. The attacker would need to already have the ability to execute code on the system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by running a specially crafted application on the victim system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle objects in memory.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
Microsoft Microsoft Office 2013 Click-to-Run (C2R)
15.0.0.0 to < 15.0.5571.1000affected
Microsoft Microsoft Office 2019
19.0.0 to < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesaffected
Microsoft Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
16.0.1 to < https://aka.ms/OfficeSecurityReleasesaffected