CVE-2007-3899: microsoft office Code Injection

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2007-3899 is a high (CVSS 9.3) Code Injection vulnerability in microsoft office. EPSS estimates a 29.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 09-10-2007
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 07-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 SP3, Word 2002 SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed string in a Word file, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

• CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment.