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CVE-2014-17617.8/HIGHEPSS 77.7%CISA KEV
2014-03-25

Microsoft Word and Office RTF Memory Corruption Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2014-1761) Analysis & Mitigation Guide

[Affected Scope] Microsoft Word 2003 to 2013, Office for Mac 2011, SharePoint Server Word Automation Services, and Office Web Apps.

[Impact] Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (system crash) by tricking a user into opening a crafted RTF document.

[Mitigation] Apply the official MS14-017 security patch immediately, or implement File Block policies to disable RTF parsing in Microsoft Word.