PT-2019-1787 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Published 2019-04-09 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2019-0828

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 Excel (affected versions not specified)

Description A remote code execution issue exists due to the software's failure to properly handle objects in memory. This could allow an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the user has administrative rights, the attacker could take control of the system, install programs, view or modify data, or create new accounts with full rights. The exploitation requires a user to open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel.

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

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2019-01439

CVE-2019-0828

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 5

• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-01439 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-0828 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-0828 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-0828 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-0828 · Security Note