PT-2019-3362 · Microsoft · Office 365+2

Published 2019-09-10 · Updated 2025-04-07 · CVE-2019-1297

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) Microsoft Office (affected versions not specified) Microsoft Office 365 (affected versions not specified)

Description A remote code execution issue exists in Microsoft Excel software due to improper handling of objects in memory. This could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user by opening a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. If the current user has administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Users with fewer user rights on the system could be less impacted.

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:2019-03492

CVE-2019-1297

ZDI-19-815

Affected Products

Office Excel

Office

Office 365

References · 11

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1297 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-1297 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2019-03492 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1297 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-1297 · Vendor Advisory
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-19-815 · Security Note
• https://cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-1297 · Note
• https://twitter.com/uuallan/status/1283236597694177280 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/118076 · Telegram Post
• https://cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog · Note
• https://cisa.gov/sites/default/files/csv/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.csv · Note