How severe is CVE-2014-6352?

CVE-2014-6352 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 77.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-6352: Microsoft Windows Code Injection Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Windows Code Injection Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-02-25

Remediation due

2022-08-25

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6352

Description

Microsoft Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 Gold and R2, and Windows RT Gold and 8.1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted OLE object, as exploited in the wild in October 2014 with a crafted PowerPoint document.

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

Exploitation Context

as of October 17, 2026

All KEV statistics→

CISA added CVE-2014-6352 to the KEV catalog 2,683 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 391 Microsoft entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 166 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (77.5%) is higher than that of 62% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

8 Links

Vendor advisories

MS14-064

Third-party advisories

61803

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2014-10-22

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

microsoft

Credited to

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