CVE-2011-1989
Description
Microsoft Excel 2003 SP3 and 2007 SP2; Excel in Office 2007 SP2; Excel 2010 Gold and SP1; Excel in Office 2010 Gold and SP1; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Excel Viewer SP2; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2; Excel Services on Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP2; Excel Services on Office SharePoint Server 2010 Gold and SP1; and Excel Web App 2010 Gold and SP1 do not properly parse conditional expressions associated with formatting requirements, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Conditional Expression Parsing Vulnerability."
Predictions
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| microsoft | excel | 2003 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2007 | |
| microsoft | excel | 2010 | |
| microsoft | excel_viewer | | |
| microsoft | excel_web_app | 2010 | |
| microsoft | office | 2004 | |
| microsoft | office | 2007 | |
| microsoft | office | 2008 | |
| microsoft | office | 2010 | |
| microsoft | office | 2011 | |
| microsoft | office_compatibility_pack | 2007 | |
| microsoft | open_xml_file_format_converter | | |
| microsoft | sharepoint_server | 2007 | |
| microsoft | sharepoint_server | 2010 | |
References
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12974
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-256A.html
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-072
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12974
CWEs
CWE-20
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.