CVE-2012-0183

Office vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

24.4%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2 and SP3, Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac, and Office Compatibility Pack SP2 and SP3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted RTF data, aka "RTF Mismatch Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office

CVSS vector

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

Published

2012-05-09

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 24.4% 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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