CVE-2001-0718

Excel vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

11.1%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

Vulnerability in (1) Microsoft Excel 2002 and earlier and (2) Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and earlier allows attackers to bypass macro restrictions and execute arbitrary commands by modifying the data stream in the document.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Excel

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2001-10-30

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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