PT-2020-3816 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Jinquan · Published 2020-08-11 · Updated 2024-01-19 · CVE-2020-1498

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 its 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, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Exploitation requires a user to open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel. This could be achieved through email or web-based attacks, where an attacker convinces a user to open the specially crafted file.

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:2020-04178

CVE-2020-1498

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 5

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1498 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1498 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-04178 · Security Note
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1498 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1498 · Security Note