CVE-2014-1761 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Word and related Office products, including Word Viewer, Office Compatibility Pack, Office for Mac, Word Automation Services, and Office Web Apps. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via specially crafted RTF data. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it has a low attack complexity and requires user interaction (opening a malicious RTF file) but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild as early as March 2014, with public Metasploit modules available, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, indicating its widespread impact and exploitability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2011CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* | ||
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:-:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_web_apps:2010:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_web_apps:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_web_apps_server:2013:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.