PT-2013-4690 · Microsoft · Office Word+2

Ben Hawkes + 2 · Published 2013-09-11 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2013-3856

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Word versions 2003 SP3 Microsoft Word Viewer (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service due to memory corruption via a crafted Office document. Remote code execution vulnerabilities exist in the way that affected Microsoft Office software parses specially crafted files, potentially allowing an attacker to take complete control of an affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations For Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, update to a version that is not affected by this issue. For Microsoft Word Viewer, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-3856

Affected Products

Office

Office Word

Word Viewer

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3856 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-072 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3856 · Security Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3856 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18797 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-253A · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-072 · Note