CVE-2010-1901

Microsoft Word - Remote Code Execution via RTF Parsing Engine

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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."

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-222A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11612

Scores

EPSS 0.1940
EPSS Percentile 97.0%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (8)
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack 2007 sp2
microsoft/office_word_viewer
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
microsoft/word 2002 sp3
microsoft/word 2003 sp3
microsoft/word 2007 sp2
Published Aug 11, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026