CVE-2009-1533
Buffer overflow in the Works for Windows document converters in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office 2007…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 35.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the Works for Windows document converters in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office 2007 SP1, and Works 8.5 and 9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Works .wps file that triggers memory corruption, aka "File Converter Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 36 days later
· 36 days later
Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 35.6% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- ADV-2009-1543 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 35371 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 35184 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 54939 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1022355 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS09-024 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- TA09-160A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 1022354 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- JVN#70858401 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_JVNx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/06/09/ms09-024.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6292 (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-2009-1529 (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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