CVE-2015-0097

critical
Published 2015-03-11 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, PowerPoint 2007 SP3, Word 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, PowerPoint 2010 SP2, and Word 2010 SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Microsoft Word Local Zone Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-37657 local windows
Eduardo Braun Prado ยท 2015-07-20

Microsoft Word - Local Machine Zone Code Execution (MS15-022)

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftexcel2007
windows microsoftexcel2010
windows microsoftpowerpoint2007
windows microsoftpowerpoint2010
windows microsoftword2007
windows microsoftword2010

References

CWEs

CWE-19

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.