A security issue has been reported in Microsoft Office for Mac, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to gain escalated privileges.

The security issue is caused due to the application being installed with insecure filesystem permissions and can be exploited to create arbitrary files in certain directories (e.g. "/Library/Automator/").

Solution
Apply patch.
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Original Advisory
MS12-051 (KB2721015):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms12-051

Alternate/detailed remediation
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