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Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 uses world-writable permissions for the "Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/" directory and certain other directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse executable file in one of these directories, aka "Office for Mac Improper Folder Permissions Vulnerability."

Published Jul 10, 2012

Description

Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 uses world-writable permissions for the "Applications/Microsoft Office 2011/" directory and certain other directories, which allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse executable file in one of these directories, aka "Office for Mac Improper Folder Permissions Vulnerability."

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-264

References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published Jul 10, 2012
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Mar 22, 2012
Link CVE-2012-1894
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Link CVE-2012-1894
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
Links CVE-2012-1894