CVE-2020-0697

Publication date

2020-02-11 21:23:02

Family

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.