CVE-2009-0102

Office Project vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

23.5%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Project 2000 SR1 and 2002 SP1, and Office Project 2003 SP3, does not properly handle memory allocation for Project files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed file, aka "Project Memory Validation Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office Project

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-399

Published

2009-12-09

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 23.5% 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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