CVE-2010-2572

CVE-2010-2572 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 8, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by June 22, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Microsoft has 390 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 117 of them linked to ransomware.

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."

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

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-313A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-088
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12195
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-313A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-088
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12195
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-2572