CVE-2007-1202
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…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- microsoft
Description
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."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 29.5% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- HPSBST02214 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 1018013 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20070508 Microsoft Word RTF File Parsing Heap Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- ADV-2007-1709 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS07-024 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- TA07-128A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 34388 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- VU#555489 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 23836 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1900 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-1199 (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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