CVE-2014-1756

Severity

93%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

165%

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html "CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path"

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013 Gold, SP1, RT, and RT SP1, when the Simplified Chinese Proofing Tool is enabled, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, as demonstrated by a directory that contains a .docx file, aka "Microsoft Office Chinese Grammar Checking Vulnerability."

Per: http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/426.html "CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path"

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 9.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Office

First reported 10 years ago

2014-05-14 11:13:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3

2007

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 for 64 bit systems (x64)

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 for x86 (32-bit Systems) Service Pack 1

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 for 64 bit systems (x64)

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 for 32 bit systems (x86)

2010

Microsoft Office 2013

2013

Microsoft Office 2013 SP1

2013

References

MS14-023

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