CVE-2010-1900

critical

Published 2010-08-11 · 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

10.0

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; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; and Works 9 do not properly handle malformed records in a Word file, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted file, aka "Word Record Parsing Vulnerability."

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-14971 dos windows verified

Abysssec · 2010-09-11

Microsoft Word 2007 SP2 - sprmCMajority Buffer Overflow

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	word	`2002`
microsoft	word	`2003`
microsoft	word	`2007`
microsoft	office	`2004`
microsoft	office	`2008`
microsoft	open_xml_file_format_converter
microsoft	office_compatibility_pack	`2007`
microsoft	office_word_viewer
microsoft	works	`9.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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