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CVE-2020-0697

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CVE-2020-0697

Published: Feb 11, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

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'.

VendorProductVersions

Microsoft

Office 365 ProPlus

affected
32-bit Systems
affected
64-bit Systems

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