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CVE-2010-1902

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 23.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-08-11 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Word Viewer; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified properties in the data in a crafted RTF document, aka "Word RTF Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: 2004, 2008
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack: 2007-sp2
• Microsoft Office Word Viewer: all versions
• Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter: all versions
• Microsoft Word for Android: 2002-sp3, 2003-sp3, 2007-sp2

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-222A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-056
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11472
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-222A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-056
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11472

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