CVE-2014-1761

7.8

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, 2013, and 2013 RT; Word Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack SP3; Office for Mac 2011; Word...

Exploited in the wild Low complexity

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Word
Published: Mar 24, 2014
EPSS: —

Description

Microsoft Word 2003 SP3, 2007 SP3, 2010 SP1 and SP2, 2013, and 2013 RT; Word Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack SP3; Office for Mac 2011; Word Automation Services on SharePoint Server 2010 SP1 and SP2 and 2013; Office Web Apps 2010 SP1 and SP2; and Office Web Apps Server 2013 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted RTF data, as exploited in the wild in March 2014.

cisa metasploit

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.8 High

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

CVSS v2.0 9.3

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-02-15 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Feb 15, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Metasploit	https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/ms14_017_rtf.rb	Apr 28, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

ms14_017_rtf

metasploit · Created Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2014-1761

Vulnerability detail