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CVE-2011-1982

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 27.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2011-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Microsoft Office 2007 SP2, and 2010 Gold and SP1, does not initialize an unspecified object pointer during the opening of Word documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Office Uninitialized Object Pointer Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: 2007-sp2, 2010, 2010-sp1

References

• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/909022
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-073
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12243
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/909022
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-073
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12243

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