RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2010-1901
Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Word Viewer; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 do not properly handle unspecified properties in rich text data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted RTF document, aka "Word RTF Parsing Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.194 (97.3th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.194 · newest: 0.194 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack — versions 2007
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
- Microsoft Word — versions 2007, 2003, 2002
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-222A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-056 (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11612 (signature, vdb-entry)