Microsoft Office 2000 UA ActiveX Control Show Me privileges management
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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2000 (Office Suite Software). It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function Show Me
of the component UA ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
The Office 2000 UA ActiveX Control is marked as "safe for scripting," which allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via the "Show Me" function in Office Help, aka the "Office 2000 UA Control" vulnerability.
The issue has been introduced in 06/07/1999. The weakness was disclosed 05/11/2000 as confirmed advisory (CERT.org). The advisory is available at cert.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2000-0419. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 339 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (4445).
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CPE 2.3
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0
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Exploiting
Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Timeline
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Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: cert.org
Status: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2000-0419 (🔍)
X-Force: 4445
Vulnerability Center: 3143 - [MS00-034] Office 2000 UA Control Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Conduct Unauthorized Acti, Medium
SecurityFocus: 1197 - Microsoft Office 2000 UA Control Vulnerability
Entry
Created: 06/24/2014 16:26Updated: 05/18/2019 09:09
Changes: 06/24/2014 16:26 (63), 05/18/2019 09:09 (2)
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