CVE-2020-0697

2020-02-1121:23:02

microsoft

www.cve.org

8 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

19.8%

JSON

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., aka ‘Microsoft Office Tampering Vulnerability’.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "product": "Office 365 ProPlus",
    "vendor": "Microsoft",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "32-bit Systems"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "64-bit Systems"
      }
    ]
  }
]