Exploitation Summary
CVE-2009-0087 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV).
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the Word 6 text converter in WordPad in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and the Word 6 text converter in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word 6 file that contains malformed data, aka "WordPad and Office Text Converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022043
US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-104A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5799
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_osvdb
http://osvdb.org/53662
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-010
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1024
Scores
EPSS
0.2589
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Details
VulnCheck KEV
2009-06-17
Status
published
Products (5)
microsoft/office_word
2000 sp3
microsoft/office_word
2002 sp3
microsoft/windows_2000
microsoft/windows_2003_server
(6 CPE variants)
microsoft/windows_xp
(4 CPE variants)
Published
Apr 15, 2009
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026