CVE-2020-16928

HIGH

Microsoft Office Click-to-Run - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

<p>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.</p> <p>To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a user to open a specially crafted file.</p> <p>The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how Microsoft Office Click-to-Run (C2R) components handle these files.</p>

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.0341
EPSS Percentile 87.6%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

Status published
Products (3)
microsoft/365_apps
microsoft/office 2013
microsoft/office 2019
Published Oct 16, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026