Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac; Excel Viewer; and Office Compatibility…

Description

Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2 and SP3, and 2010 Gold and SP1; Office 2008 and 2011 for Mac; Excel Viewer; and Office Compatibility Pack SP2 and SP3 do not properly handle memory during the opening of files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel SXLI Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

24.2% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-264 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• ms-excel-sxli-code-execution(75117) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14789 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• 53375 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1027041 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20120508 Microsoft Excel SXLI Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
• MS12-030 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• 49112 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• TA12-129A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 18:16 UTC.