{"id":"CVE-2002-0727","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2002-0727","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:40:41.711Z","title":"The Host function in Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) 2000 and 2002 is exposed in components that are marked as safe for scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the setTimeout method.","description":"The Host function in Microsoft Office Web Components (OWC) 2000 and 2002 is exposed in components that are marked as safe for scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the setTimeout method.","published":"2002-09-24T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T21:58:01.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["microsoft/office web components","microsoft/project"],"epss":{"score":0.18846,"percentile":0.97267,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.8%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101829645415486&w=2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8777.php","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/3006","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4449","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-044","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101829645415486&w=2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8777.php","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/3006","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4449","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2002/ms02-044","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-0727","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}