THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2010-0815
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-0815

Visual Basic For Applications vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
22.4%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
VBE6.DLL in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, 2007 Microsoft Office System SP1 and SP2, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and VBA SDK 6.3 through 6.5 does not properly search for ActiveX controls that are embedded in documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "VBE6.DLL Stack Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Visual Basic For Applications
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2010-05-12

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 22.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-0815

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-0815.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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