Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2018-0798 First vendor Publication 2018-01-09
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2020-08-24

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 8.8
Base Score 8.8 Environmental Score 8.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 8.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 2.8
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Equation Editor in Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, and Microsoft Office 2016 allows a remote code execution vulnerability due to the way objects are handled in memory, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability".

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-0798

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 5
Application 1
Application 5

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 50695 - Revision : 1 - Type : MALWARE-OTHER
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 50694 - Revision : 1 - Type : MALWARE-OTHER
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor RTF evasion attempt
RuleID : 50693 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor RTF evasion attempt
RuleID : 50692 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor RTF evasion attempt
RuleID : 50691 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor RTF evasion attempt
RuleID : 50690 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor RTF embedded OLE evasion attempt
RuleID : 50685 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-08-13 Microsoft Office Equation Editor RTF embedded OLE evasion attempt
RuleID : 50684 - Revision : 1 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2019-06-04 Win.Doc.Dropper SectorB06 malicious rtf dropper download attempt
RuleID : 50009 - Revision : 2 - Type : MALWARE-CNC
2019-06-04 Win.Doc.Dropper SectorB06 malicious rtf dropper download attempt
RuleID : 50008 - Revision : 2 - Type : MALWARE-CNC

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102370
CONFIRM https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-0798
MISC https://0patch.blogspot.com/2018/01/bringing-abandoned-equation-editor-back.html
SECTRACK http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040153

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