CVE-2020-16928: Microsoft Office Click-to-Run Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

First published: Fri Oct 16 2020(Updated: )

<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>

Credit: secure@microsoft.com secure@microsoft.com

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