Security Advisory

CVE-2020-0697

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-02-11 21:23:02
Last updated 2024-08-04 06:11:05
Assigner microsoft
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.