PT-2020-3820 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Published 2020-07-21 · Updated 2024-01-19 · CVE-2020-1504

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 when it fails to properly handle objects in memory. An attacker who successfully exploits this issue could run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user is logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker could take control of the affected system, allowing them to 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 than those operating with administrative user rights. Exploitation requires a user to open a specially crafted file with an affected version of Microsoft Excel, which could be achieved through email or web-based attack scenarios by convincing the user to open the 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:2020-04182

CVE-2020-1504

DSA-4732-1

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 5

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-1504 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1504 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-04182 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-4732-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-1504 · Vendor Advisory