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CVE-2014-4114

97
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4114 is a critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Windows, including Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, and Server editions. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by embedding a crafted OLE object within an Office document. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a significant impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, requiring user interaction to trigger. Notably, it was actively exploited in the wild as part of the "Sandworm" attacks from June to October 2014, with numerous public exploits and Metasploit modules available, and continues to garner substantial community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_7:-:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_8.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_rt:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_rt_8.1:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
81.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
Metasploit: MS14-060 Microsoft Windows OLE Package Manager Code Execution · Oct 14, 2014
ExploitDB: EDB-35235 · Nov 14, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8163 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 11,616 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
blogs.technet.com / b/srd/archive/2014/10/14/accessing-risk-for-the-october-2014-security-updates.aspx
Broken LinkVendor Advisory
blog.trendmicro.com / trendlabs-security-intelligence/an-analysis-of-windows-zero-day-vulnerability-cve-2014-4114-aka-sandworm
Exploit
osvdb.org / show/osvdb/113140
Broken Link
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2014/ms14-060
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/60972
Broken Link
exploit-db.com / exploits/35019
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exploit-db.com / exploits/35020
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
exploit-db.com / exploits/35055
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
isightpartners.com / 2014/10/cve-2014-4114
Broken Link
securityfocus.com / bid/70419
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry