CVE-2015-2424 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Microsoft Word and PowerPoint. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service simply by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Office document. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with low complexity, requiring only user interaction, and can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Notably, this CVE has been actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention and media coverage, despite a lack of public exploit code in common repositories.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2011CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2011:*:*:*:*:macos:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:sp1:*:*:-:*:*:* |
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, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.