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Microsoft Office Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-06-08
Federal due date
2022-06-22
Vendor
Microsoft
Product
Office
EPSS
99.1th percentile (score 0.631, as of 2026-07-13)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0563

CISA short description

Microsoft Office contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute code via a Word document with a crafted tag containing an invalid length field.

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EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.