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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-1249 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac al…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-1278

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.8%
EPSS 24.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Buffer overflow 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 ExternName (0x23) record, aka "Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0823 and CVE-2010-1247.

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Exploit prediction

24.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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