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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2009-0565 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2007 SP1 and SP2; Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 and 2008; Open XML File Fo…

published 2009-06-10 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0569

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
40.5%
EPSS 40.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2007 SP1 and SP2; Microsoft Office for Mac 2004 and 2008; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed record that triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-14693)

Exploit prediction

40.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-17177 Microsoft Word 2003 - Record Parsing Buffer Overflow (MS09-027) (Metasploit) local, 2011-04-16
  • EDB-14693 Microsoft Word - Record Parsing Buffer Overflow (MS09-027) local, 2010-08-20

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.