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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2008 (Office Suite Software). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, when running on Macintosh systems that restrict Office access to administrators, does not enforce this restriction for user ID 502, which allows local users with that ID to bypass intended security policy and access Office programs, related to permissions and ownership for certain directories.
The weakness was disclosed 01/31/2008 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at support.microsoft.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2008-7217 since 09/13/2009. The exploitability is told to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.
A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.9VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.9
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Exploiting
Class: Access controlCWE: CWE-264
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Local: Yes
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Status: Not defined
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Countermeasures
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Timeline
01/31/2008 🔍03/11/2008 🔍
05/02/2008 🔍
09/13/2009 🔍
09/13/2009 🔍
03/18/2015 🔍
01/20/2019 🔍
Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: support.microsoft.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2008-7217 (🔍)
OSVDB: 44959 - Microsoft Office on Mac OS X Installation Permission Bypass
Entry
Created: 03/18/2015 15:15Updated: 01/20/2019 13:26
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (46), 01/20/2019 13:26 (6)
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