CVE-2014-1809

Office vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

10.1%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

The MSCOMCTL library in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013 Gold, SP1, RT, and RT SP1 makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted web site, as exploited in the wild in May 2014, aka "MSCOMCTL ASLR Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2014-05-14

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 10.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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