CVE-2010-1901

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

9.3

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."

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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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

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.