CVE-2012-1894

Severity

69%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

165%

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."

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."

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 12 years ago

2012-07-10 21:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-12 22:03:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office 2011 Mac

2011

References

TA12-192A

US Government Resource

MS12-051

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15602

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