RCE in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2010-0823
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP1 and SP2; Office 2004 for mac; Office 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Excel Viewer SP1 and SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka "Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1247 and CVE-2010-1249.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.205 (97.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.205 · newest: 0.205 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2007, 2003, 2002
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack — versions 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel Viewer
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7240 (signature, vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-038 (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- osvdb.org/65233 (vdb-entry)