CVE-2007-1202

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
64.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: May 8, 2007 (6945 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Word (or Word Viewer) in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and Works Suite 2004, 2005, and 2006 does not properly parse certain rich text "property strings of certain control words," which allows user-assisted remote attackers to trigger heap corruption and execute arbitrary code, aka the "Word RTF Parsing Vulnerability."

CWE

CWE-20

Affected Products

microsoft wordmicrosoft word viewermicrosoft works

References