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CVE-2007-0515

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 39.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2007-01-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on Word 2000, and cause a denial of service on Word 2003, via unknown attack vectors that trigger memory corruption, as exploited by Trojan.Mdropper.W and later by Trojan.Mdropper.X, a different issue than CVE-2006-6456, CVE-2006-5994, and CVE-2006-6561.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: 2000-sp3, 2003-sp2, 2004, xp-sp3
• Microsoft Word for Android: 2000, 2002, 2003
• Microsoft Word Viewer: 2003
• Microsoft Works: 2004, 2005, 2006

References

• http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=2133
• http://osvdb.org/31900
• http://secunia.com/advisories/23950
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017564
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/412225
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/932114.mspx
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22225
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22328
• http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/multiple_organizations_targett.html
• http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/weblog/2007/01/new_microsoft_word_2000_vulner.html
• http://www.symantec.com/enterprise/security_response/writeup.jsp?docid=2007-013010-5422-99&tabid=2
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html

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