VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2011-0979

CVSS score9.3 HIGH
EPSS probability26.52%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2011-02-10
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."

Weakness classification

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation

Primary references