PT-2020-2742 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Icewall + 1 · Published 2020-06-09 · Updated 2021-07-21 · CVE-2020-1226

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 in Microsoft Excel software due to improper handling of objects in memory. This could allow a remote attacker to execute 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, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user 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.

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Use After Free

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

CWE-416

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-02822

CVE-2020-1226

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 10

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1226 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1226 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-02822 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1226 · Security Note
• https://safe-surf.ru/specialists/bulletins-nkcki/653400 · Security Note
• https://t.me/freedomf0x/8362 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/sysadm_in_channel/1879 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cybersecuritytechnologies/1255 · Telegram Post
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2020-1027 · Note