Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on Word 2000, and cause a denial of service on Word 2003, via unknown attack vectors that trigger memory corruption, as exploited by Trojan.Mdropper.W and later by Trojan.Mdropper.X, a different issue than CVE-2006-6456, CVE-2006-5994, and CVE-2006-6561.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2007-0515 is rated High Exploit Risk (87.1/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 81.63%, 99th percentile). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.
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| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3260 | exploit_db | edb | 2007-02-03 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
| 29524 | exploit_db | edb | 2007-01-25 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2025-12-29 | 81.38% | 81.63% | +0.25% |
| 2 | 2025-11-06 | 79.92% | 81.38% | +1.46% |
| 3 | 2025-09-14 | — | 79.92% | — |
Full EPSS history (17 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9.3 | 2.0 | HIGH |
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8.6 | 10.0 | [email protected] |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | office | 2000 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | office | 2003 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | office | 2004 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | office | xp | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | word | 2000 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | word | 2002 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | word | 2003 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | word_viewer | 2003 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | works | 2004 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:2004:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | works | 2005 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:2005:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| microsoft | works | 2006 | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:2006:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |