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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-2563 in the critical feed json

The Word 97 text converter in the WordPad Text Converters in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 does not properly parse m…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-2567

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.2%
EPSS 18.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Word 97 text converter in the WordPad Text Converters in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 and Server 2003 SP2 does not properly parse malformed structures in Word 97 documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document containing an unspecified value that is used in a loop counter, aka "WordPad Word 97 Text Converter Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

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Exploit prediction

18.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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