Exploitation Summary
CVE-2012-2539 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added March 28, 2022.
Description
Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 SP1; Word Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack SP2 and SP3; and Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted RTF data, aka "Word RTF 'listoverridecount' Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2012-2539
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-346A.html
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2012/ms12-079
Broken Link vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16073
Scores
CVSS v3
7.8
EPSS
0.8441
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
active
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
total
Details
CISA KEV
2022-03-28
VulnCheck KEV
2014-07-11
InTheWild.io
2022-03-28
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2012-2525
CWE
CWE-787
Status
published
Products (7)
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack
(2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_web_apps
2010 sp1
microsoft/office_word_viewer
microsoft/sharepoint_server
2010
microsoft/word
2003 sp3
microsoft/word
2007 sp2 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/word
2010 sp1
Published
Dec 12, 2012
KEV Added
Mar 28, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026