Integer underflow in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP2, Office 2013 SP1, Office 2013 RT SP1, Office for Mac 2011, and Word Viewer…

published 2015-08-15 11y ago modified 2026-10-14 25d ago also EUVD-2015-2563

cvss: 9.3; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 26.9%; EPSS 26.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

Integer underflow in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, Office 2010 SP2, Office 2013 SP1, Office 2013 RT SP1, Office for Mac 2011, and Word Viewer allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office Integer Underflow Vulnerability."

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Timeline

2015-08-15 Published
2015-08-21 First public exploit (EDB-37924)

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: total
Assessed: 26d ago (2026-10-14)

Exploit prediction

26.86% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

EDB-37924 Microsoft Office 2007 - MSPTLS Heap Index Integer Underflow (MS15-081) dos, 2015-08-21

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-189 Numeric Errors

References

exploit-db.com /exploits/37924/
exploit
docs.microsoft.com /en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2015/ms15-081
vendor-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1033239
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-2470
NVD CVE-2015-2470

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