CVE-2007-1202: Microsoft Word

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 29.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Microsoft Word: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2004 only
• Microsoft Word Viewer: version 2003 only
• Microsoft Works: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only

Published 2007-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.