CVE-2008-7217 Security feature bypass in n/a

What is CVE-2008-7217?

CVE-2008-7217 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 13 Sep 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, when running on Macintosh systems that restrict Office access to administrators, does not enforce this restriction for user ID 502, which allows local users with that ID to bypass intended security policy and access Office programs, related to permissions and ownership for certain directories.

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-7217?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2008-7217?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-7217 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-7217 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-7217 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h222-rpwc-wpc8.