CVE-2018-4040: Atlantiswordprocessor Atlantis Word Processor

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An exploitable uninitialized pointer vulnerability exists in the rich text format parser of Atlantis Word Processor, version 3.2.7.2. A specially crafted document can cause certain RTF tokens to dereference a pointer that has been uninitialized and then write to it. An attacker must convince a victim to open a specially crafted document in order to trigger this vulnerability.

Affected products

• Atlantiswordprocessor Atlantis Word Processor: version 3.2.7.2 only

Published 2018-12-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.