CVE-2010-1245

critical

Published 2010-06-08 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed SxView (0xB0) record, aka "Excel Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0824 and CVE-2010-0821.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-15148 dos windows verified text · 1 KB

Abysssec · 2010-09-29

Microsoft Excel - SxView Record Parsing Heap Memory Corruption

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

'''
  __  __  ____         _    _ ____
 |  \/  |/ __ \   /\  | |  | |  _ \
 | \  / | |  | | /  \ | |  | | |_) |
 | |\/| | |  | |/ /\ \| |  | |  _ <  (day 29 binary analysis)
 | |  | | |__| / ____ \ |__| | |_) |
 |_|  |_|\____/_/    \_\____/|____/
  
'''
  
  Title               :  Microsoft Excel SxView  Record Parsing Heap Memory Corruption
  Version             :  Excel 2002 SP3
  Analysis            :  http://www.abysssec.com
  Vendor              :  http://www.microsoft.com
  Impact              :  High
  Contact             :  shahin [at] abysssec.com , info  [at] abysssec.com
  Twitter             :  @abysssec
  CVE                 :  CVE-2010-1245
  
here is BA : http://www.exploit-db.com/moaub-29-microsoft-excel-sxview-record-parsing-memory-corruption/
here is the PoC : https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/15148.rar (moaub-29-exploit.rar)

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
microsoft	excel	`2002`
microsoft	office	`2004`
microsoft	office	`2008`
microsoft	open_xml_file_format_converter

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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