CVE-2012-1894

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."

Score

CVSS 2.0 6.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secure@microsoft.com

Published

2012-07-10

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-264

Affected products

• Office (Microsoft)

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-051
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15602