VDB-130823 · CVE-2019-0672 · BID 106863

Microsoft Office up to 2019 Connectivity Engine memory corruption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office up to 2019. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Connectivity Engine. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2019-0672. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office up to 2019 (Office Suite Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Connectivity Engine. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The bug was discovered 02/12/2019. The weakness was presented 02/12/2019 as confirmed security update guide (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at portal.msrc.microsoft.com. The public release was coordinated in cooperation with Microsoft. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2019-0672 since 11/26/2018. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful 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 advisory points out:

A remote code execution vulnerability exists when the Microsoft Office Access Connectivity Engine improperly handles objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code on a victim system.

The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110330 (Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps Security Update February 2019).

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

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityFocus (BID 106863†). See VDB-130777, VDB-130778, VDB-130785 and VDB-130821 for similar entries. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
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Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: portal.msrc.microsoft.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2019-0672 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2019-0672
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-130823
SecurityFocus: 106863 - Microsoft Office CVE-2019-0540 Security Bypass Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 02/13/2019 10:13
Updated: 05/10/2020 09:41
Changes: 02/13/2019 10:13 (65), 05/10/2020 09:41 (5)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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