PT-2017-1602 · Microsoft · Office+1

Haifei Li · Published 2017-03-14 · Updated 2017-07-12 · CVE-2017-0053

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Office (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is caused by the improper handling of objects in memory, which can lead to remote code execution. An attacker could exploit this by getting a user to open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Office software, potentially allowing the attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user has administrative user rights, the attacker could take control of the affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2017-00747

CVE-2017-0053

Affected Products

Office

Office Word

References · 8

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2017-00747 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0053 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-0053 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-0053 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-0053 · Security Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/MS17-014 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1038010 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/96745 · Note