CVE-2012-1894

Description

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."

Predictions

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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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
• 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

CWEs

CWE-264