PT-2013-4721 · Microsoft · Office Word

Published 2013-10-09 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2013-3891

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 prior to the fixed version

Description A remote code execution issue exists in the way that affected Microsoft Word software parses specially crafted files. An attacker who successfully exploits this issue could take complete control of an affected system, allowing them to install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations For Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

RCE

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-3891

Affected Products

Office Word

References · 7

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3891 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2013/ms13-086 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-3891 · Security Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A18643 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA13-288A · Note
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/bulletin/ms13-086 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-3891 · Note