CVE-2011-1278
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.3
Description
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac do not properly validate record information during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel WriteAV 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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48163
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-045
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67716
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12687
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48163
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-045
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67716
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12687
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.