Description
<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>
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