CVE-2007-1202
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 29.5%EU EUVD
Word (or Word Viewer) in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and Works Suite 2004, 2005, and 2006 does not properly parse certain rich text "property strings of certain control words," which allows user-assisted remote attackers to trigger heap corruption and execute arbitrary code, aka the "Word RTF Parsing Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 29.5% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-1199)
- Published
- May 8, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-1199 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word viewer
- microsoft / works
- microsoft / works
- microsoft / works
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=525(Patch)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/555489(US Government Resource)
- http://www.osvdb.org/34388
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468871/100/200/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23836(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018013(Patch)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-128A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1709(Vendor Advisory)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-024
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1900
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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