CVE-2010-2572
Exploitation confirmed. First attested on 2022-06-08 by CISA-ADP, CISA KEV, GCVE · kevintel.
- Published2010-11-10
- WeaknessCWE-120
Am I affected?
Debian, Ubuntu or Red Hat sometimes backport a fix without changing the upstream version number: such a version reads « to verify », never « affected ».With a domain, we read the version its public headers and pages expose. A distribution build can carry the fix under an older number.
Description
Buffer overflow in Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PowerPoint 95 document, aka "PowerPoint Parsing Buffer Overflow Vulnerability."
Timeline
dates in UTCObserved activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2010-2572?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2010-2572?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002.x | = 2002 | no fix published | NVD |
| 2003.x | = 2003 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- CISA’s required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.due 2022-06-22
Advisories and patches
- docs.microsoft.comPatch · Vendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
- Date Added
- 2022-06-08
- Patch Due Date
- 2022-06-22
- Ransomware Use
- Unknown
- Required Action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Sources
- CISA KEVKEV entry2022-06-08
- GCVEexploitation2022-06-08
- CISA-ADPSSVC decisionactive2025-02-10
- OpenCVESSVC decisionactive—
- CISA-ADPCVSS 3.17.82025-02-10
- NVDCVSS 3.17.8read 2026-10-23
- NVDCVSS 2.09.3read 2026-10-23
- CISA-ADPweakness (CWE)CWE-1202025-02-10
- NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-120read 2026-10-23
- FIRST EPSSEPSS score58.6 %read 2026-10-23
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2010-11-10
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-16
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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