CVE-2014-2730

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

The XML parser in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013, and Office for Mac 2011, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and persistent application hang) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, as demonstrated by a crafted text/plain e-mail message to Outlook, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

The XML parser in Microsoft Office 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, and 2013, and Office for Mac 2011, does not properly detect recursion during entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and persistent application hang) via a crafted XML document containing a large number of nested entity references, as demonstrated by a crafted text/plain e-mail message to Outlook, a similar issue to CVE-2003-1564.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Microsoft Office

First reported 10 years ago

2014-04-05 14:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-09 19:43:00

Affected Software

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 3

2007

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 1 for 64 bit systems (x64)

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 for x86 (32-bit Systems) Service Pack 1

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 for 64 bit systems (x64)

2010

Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 for 32 bit systems (x86)

2010

Microsoft Office 2011 Mac

2011

Microsoft Office 2013 x64 (64-bit)

2013
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Microsoft Office 2013 x86 (32-bit)

2013
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