RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2010-3216
Microsoft Word 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word document containing bookmarks that trigger use of an invalid pointer and memory corruption, aka "Word Bookmarks 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: 0.205 (97.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.205 · newest: 0.205 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004
- Microsoft Word — versions 2002
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-079 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514291/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7529 (signature, vdb-entry)