CVE-2012-1894: Microsoft Office

Medium severity, CVSS 6.9. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 2011 only

Published 2012-07-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.