How severe is CVE-2010-2572?

CVE-2010-2572 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 58.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2010-2572: Microsoft PowerPoint Buffer Overflow

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft PowerPoint Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-06-08

Remediation due

2022-06-22

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2572

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."

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

3 Links

Vendor advisories

MS10-088

Third-party advisories

TA10-313A

Vulnerability databases

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12195

Record Details

Published

2010-11-10

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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