CVE-2012-1894 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2012-1894?

CVE-2012-1894 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 10 Jul 2012. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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."

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-1894?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2012-1894?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-1894 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2012-1894 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-1894 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
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-f78m-864p-mm89.