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CVE-2008-7217

N/A
Published: September 13, 2009 at 10:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:03 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOffice

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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Patch and advisory references

References (2)

VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Source: [email protected]
http://osvdb.org/44959
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_MSKB
Source: [email protected]
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3BEN-US%3B948488

CVSS

4.6MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-264

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