CVE-2010-1248

critical
Published 2010-06-08 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed HFPicture (0x866) record, aka "Excel HFPicture Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-15019 dos windows verified text ยท 1 KB
Abysssec ยท 2010-09-16

Microsoft Excel - HFPicture Record Parsing Remote Code Execution

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
'''
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 | \  / | |  | | /  \ | |  | | |_) |
 | |\/| | |  | |/ /\ \| |  | |  _ <  (day 16 binary anlysis)
 | |  | | |__| / ____ \ |__| | |_) |
 |_|  |_|\____/_/    \_\____/|____/ 

'''

  Title               :  Microsoft Excel HFPicture Record Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
  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-2010-1248

here is BA : http://www.exploit-db.com/maoub-16-microsoft-excel-hfpicture-record-parsing-remote-code-execution-vulnerability/
here is the PoC : https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/15019.rar (HFPicture_PoC.rar)
EDB-15065 dos windows verified
Abysssec ยท 2010-09-21

Microsoft Excel - WOPT Record Parsing Heap Memory Corruption

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
windows microsoftexcel2002
windows microsoftoffice2004

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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