The Office Web Components ActiveX Control in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office XP Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Compone
The Office Web Components ActiveX Control in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office XP Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 SP3 and 2006 SP1, and Office Small Business Accounting 2006 does not properly allocate memory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that trigger "system state" corruption, aka "Office Web Components Memory Allocation Vulnerability."
- Published
- Aug 12, 2009
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 25.7% · 98th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-399
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Report tools
Action score
45
Plan
Add it to your regular patch cycle.
- CVSS
- 37 / 40 · 9.3 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 8 / 30 · 25.7%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| microsoft | isa server | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:isa_server |
| microsoft | office | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office |
| microsoft | office web components | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_web_components |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- microsoft isa server2004
- microsoft isa server2006
- microsoft officeall versions
- microsoft office2003
- microsoft officexp
- microsoft office web components2000
- microsoft office web components2003
- microsoft office web componentsxp
Same product
microsoft: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2009-1136The Microsoft Office Web Components Spreadsheet ActiveX control (aka OWC10 or OWC11), as distributed in Office XP SP3 and Office 2003 SP3, O56Plan
- CVE-2006-7027Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 logs unusual ASCII characters in the Host header, including the tab, which al45Plan
- CVE-2009-1135Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 Gold and SP1, when Radius OTP is enabled, uses the HTTP-Basic authentication 44Plan
- CVE-2005-1216Microsoft ISA Server 2000 allows remote attackers to connect to services utilizing the NetBIOS protocol via a NetBIOS connection with an ISA38Monitor
- CVE-2001-0239Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2000 Web Proxy allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a long web38Monitor
- CVE-2006-3652Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 allows remote attackers to bypass file extension filters via a request with a36Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
If successful
- Confidentiality
- C · data can be read
- Integrity
- C · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- C · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- M
- Confidentiality impact
- C
- Integrity impact
- C
- Availability impact
- C
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-399 · Resource Management ErrorsCVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.
Noroxi analysis
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References
- www.securitytracker.com/id?1022708
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-223A.html
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2009/ms09-043
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6337
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.