CVE-2010-1681

high

Published 2010-05-06 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.6

Description

Buffer overflow in VISIODWG.DLL before 10.0.6880.4 in Microsoft Office Visio allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DXF file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0254 and CVE-2010-0256.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-17451 local windows verified

Metasploit · 2011-06-26

Microsoft Visio - 'VISIODWG.dll .DXF' File Handling (MS10-028) (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-14944 local windows verified

Abysssec · 2010-09-08

Microsoft Visio 2002 - '.DXF' Local Stack Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_windows/fileformat/visio_dxf_bof rank 400

Microsoft Office Visio VISIODWG.DLL DXF File Handling Vulnerability

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	visio	`2002`
microsoft	visio	`2003`
microsoft	visio	`2007`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.