01 Record
CVE-2000-0073
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Rich Text Format (RTF) reader allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a malformed control word.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 20.68% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2000-04-18 04:00Z26 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 05:05Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2000-01-22
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- e5b3228200b4ab0b9991c8ca396ff5bd7ac8b62f19540ec4bdefe736837fa550
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- support.microsoft.comQ249973http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3B%5BLN%5D%3BQ249973
- docs.microsoft.comMS00-005https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2000/ms00-005
- xforce.iss.netwin-malformed-rtf-control-wordhttp://xforce.iss.net/search.php3?type=2&pattern=win-malformed-rtf-control-word