CVE-2010-2563: Microsoft Windows Server 2003

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 18.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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."

Affected products

• Microsoft Windows Server 2003: any version
• Microsoft Windows XP: any version; affected versions not specified

Published 2010-09-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.