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."
Published: 2012-07-10
Score: 6.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2012-1904 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."
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Microsoft Office
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: microsoft

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T19:17:26.926Z

Reserved: 2012-03-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2012-1894

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Status : Modified

Published: 2012-07-10T21:55:06.247

Modified: 2026-04-29T01:13:23.040

Link: CVE-2012-1894

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