Microsoft Office 365 Apps for Enterprise/2013 C2R/2019 AppVLP improper authorization

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Microsoft Office 365 Apps for Enterprise/2013 C2R/2019 (Office Suite Software). This affects some unknown processing of the component AppVLP. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privilege escalation vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-285. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was disclosed 10/13/2020 as confirmed security guidance (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2020-16934 since 08/04/2020. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 11/18/2020). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1548.002 according to MITRE ATT&CK. The advisory points out:

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists in the way that Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) AppVLP handles certain files. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could elevate privileges. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file. The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.

It is declared as proof-of-concept.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published immediately after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

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Class: Privilege escalation
CWE: CWE-285
ATT&CK: T1548.002

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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08/04/2020 CVE assigned
10/13/2020 +70 days Advisory disclosed
10/13/2020 +0 days Countermeasure disclosed
10/14/2020 +0 days VulDB entry created
11/18/2020 +35 days VulDB last update

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Vendor: https://www.microsoft.com/

Advisory: portal.msrc.microsoft.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2020-16934 (🔒)

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Created: 10/14/2020 09:24 AM
Updated: 11/18/2020 10:26 PM
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