CVE-2002-1143
Microsoft Word and Excel allow remote attackers to steal sensitive information via certain field codes that insert the information when…
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Microsoft Word and Excel allow remote attackers to steal sensitive information via certain field codes that insert the information when the document is returned to the attacker, as demonstrated in Word using (1) INCLUDETEXT or (2) INCLUDEPICTURE, aka "Flaw in Word Fields and Excel External Updates Could Lead to Information Disclosure."
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 21 years later
· 21 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 53.6% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- 20020919 More vulnerabilities (Re: Security side-effects of Word fields) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MS02-059 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 5764 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- word-includetext-read-files(10008) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- word-includepicture-read-files(10155) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:202 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 5586 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#899713 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20020826 Security side-effects of Word fields (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/Technet/security/topics/secword.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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