THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2009-0087
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-0087

Office Word vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
25.9%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in the Word 6 text converter in WordPad in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, and Server 2003 SP1 and SP2; and the Word 6 text converter in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word 6 file that contains malformed data, aka "WordPad and Office Text Converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Office Word
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2009-04-15

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 25.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-0087

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Office Word is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-0087.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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