Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2007-1239
Microsoft Excel 2003 does not properly parse .XLS files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file with a (1) corrupted XML format or a (2) corrupted XLS format, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.122 (96.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.116 · newest: 0.122 · change: +0.006
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2003
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/461373/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/22717 (vdb-entry)
- securityvulns.com/news/Microsoft/Excel/XML/DoS.html (Exploit)