CVE-2010-1901: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 19.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Word Viewer; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 do not properly handle unspecified properties in rich text data, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted RTF document, aka "Word RTF Parsing Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2004 only; version 2008 only
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack: version 2007 only
• Microsoft Office Word Viewer: any version
• Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter: any version
• Microsoft Word: version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2007 only

Published 2010-08-11. Last modified 2026-06-16.