CVE-2011-0977

Excel vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

32.2%

EPSS pct

98th

Exploited

No known

Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, Office 2007 SP2, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed shape data in the Office drawing file format, aka "Microsoft Office Graphic Object Dereferencing Vulnerability."

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Excel

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-399

Published

2011-02-10

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 32.2% 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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