CVE-2015-1642 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, and 2013 SP1, allowing remote code execution through specially crafted documents. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious document) but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability is actively exploited in the wild, as indicated by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention and media coverage, despite a lack of public Metasploit or ExploitDB modules.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.