CVE-2004-0901: Microsoft Windows 2000

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 31.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Word for Windows 6.0 Converter (MSWRD632.WPC), as used in WordPad, does not properly validate certain data lengths, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .wri, .rtf, and .doc file sent by email or malicious web site, aka "Font Conversion Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2004-0571.

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows 2000: any version
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Server: version enterprise only; version enterprise_64-bit only; version r2 only; version standard only; version web only
• Microsoft Windows 98: any version
• Microsoft Windows 98se: any version
• Microsoft Windows Me: any version
• Microsoft Windows Nt: version 4.0 only
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.