CVE-2004-0846

Excel vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

28.3%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2001 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious file containing certain parameters that are not properly validated.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Excel

CVSS vector

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

Published

2004-11-03

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 28.3% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

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