PT-2020-5214 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Published 2020-12-08 · Updated 2023-12-31 · CVE-2020-17130

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Excel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a security feature bypass in Microsoft Excel, which is associated with access control weaknesses. This can allow an attacker to bypass existing protection mechanisms. The estimated number of potentially affected devices and details about real-world incidents where this issue was exploited are not provided.

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

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

BDU:2020-05839

CVE-2020-17130

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 15

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-17130 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2020-05839 · Security Note
• https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2020-17130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-17130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2020-17130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17130 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/18397 · Telegram Post
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