CVE-2009-3132

Microsoft Office Excel and Compatibility Pack - Remote Code Execution via Malformed Spreadsheet Formula

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1 and SP2; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; Office Excel Viewer SP1 and SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a spreadsheet containing a malformed formula, related to a "pointer corruption" issue, aka "Excel Index Parsing Vulnerability."

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023157
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6526
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-314A.html

Scores

EPSS 0.2588
EPSS Percentile 97.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-94
Status published
Products (9)
microsoft/compatibility_pack_word_excel_powerpoint 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/excel 2002 sp3
microsoft/excel 2003 sp3
microsoft/excel 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/excel_viewer (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/excel_viewer 2003 sp3
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
Published Nov 11, 2009
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026