RCE in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2010-1253
Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, 2007 SP1, and SP2; Office 2004 for mac; Office 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2; allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with crafted DBQueryExt records that allow a function call to a "user-controlled pointer," aka "Excel ADO Object Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
EPSS: 0.257 (97.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2007, 2002
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Office_compatibility_pack — versions 2007
- Microsoft Open_xml_file_format_converter
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MISC)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)