Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2011-0980
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac do not properly parse Office Art objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a function pointer, aka "Excel Dangling Pointer Vulnerability."
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: 0.264 (98.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.264 · newest: 0.264 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-040/
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/39122 (third-party-advisory)
- dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/43210 (third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021 (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12018 (signature, vdb-entry)