MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-6534

Publisher vulnerability

CVSS
6.8
EPSS
11.1%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Publisher allow user-assisted remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PUB file, possibly involving wordart.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Publisher
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2007-12-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium 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 11.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-6534

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Publisher is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-6534.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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