CVE-2011-0979Not scoredCWE-20

CVE-2011-0979: Microsoft Excel vulnerability

Microsoft · Excel

Vendor fix available · Affected: Microsoft Excel · Exploitation: likely to be exploited (10% or more)

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26.5%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

98th percentile

050100

Higher than 98% of scored CVEs

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DescriptionCVE.org

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."

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Exploitation: Likely to be exploited (10% or more). EPSS gives it a 10% or higher chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Improper Input Validation · Input Validation and Logic
Vendor: Microsoft
Published: February 2011
Band: Likely to be exploited (10% or more), February 2011

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