CVE-2010-1681
Buffer overflow in VISIODWG.DLL before 10.0.6880.4 in Microsoft Office Visio allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary…
- 7.6HighCVSS base score
- 67.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in VISIODWG.DLL before 10.0.6880.4 in Microsoft Office Visio allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DXF file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0254 and CVE-2010-0256.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Microsoft Office Visio VISIODWG.DLL DXF File Handling Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/visio_dxf_bofRank gooddisclosed 4 May 2010
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Microsoft Visio - 'VISIODWG.dll .DXF' File Handling (MS10-028) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 17451local, windowspublished 26 Jun 2011Verified
- Microsoft Visio 2002 - '.DXF' Local Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 14944local, windowspublished 8 Sept 2010Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 14944 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 5 days later
· 5 days later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 | High7.6 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 67.3% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- 1023938 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 39836 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 14944 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 20100504 [CORE-2010-0428] Microsoft Office Visio DXF File Insertion Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.coresecurity.com/content/ms-visio-dxf-buffer-overflow (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2010-1701 (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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