CVE-2013-3859 Privilege escalation in n/a

What is CVE-2013-3859?

CVE-2013-3859 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 11 Sep 2013. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Pinyin IME 2010, when used in conjunction with Microsoft Office 2010 SP1, does not properly restrict configuration options, which allows local users to gain privileges by starting Internet Explorer from the IME toolbar, aka "Chinese IME Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-264

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-3859?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Pinyin Ime.

How do I fix CVE-2013-3859?

No fix has been published for CVE-2013-3859 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2013-3859 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-3859 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-8xr3-v8m4-mq8p.