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CVE-2012-1894

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2012-07-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

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

• Microsoft Office: 2011

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-051
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15602
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-192A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-051
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15602

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