CVE-2004-0848

Office vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

27.5%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office XP allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a link with a URL file location containing long inputs after (1) "%00 (null byte) in .doc filenames or (2) "%0a" (carriage return) in .rtf filenames.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-02-08

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 27.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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