HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-1881

Access vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
20.3%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
The FieldList ActiveX control in the Microsoft Access Wizard Controls in ACCWIZ.dll in Microsoft Office Access 2003 SP3 does not properly interact with the memory-access approach used by Internet Explorer and Office during instantiation, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via an HTML document that references this control along with crafted persistent storage data, aka "ACCWIZ.dll Uninitialized Variable Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Access
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2010-07-15

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 20.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-1881

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Access is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-1881.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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