CVE-2010-0258

HIGH

Microsoft Excel - Type Confusion

Title source: rule
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 SP1 and SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2 do not properly parse the Excel file format, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet that causes memory to be interpreted as a different object type than intended, aka "Microsoft Office Excel Sheet Object Type Confusion Vulnerability."

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Broken Link third-party-advisory x_refsource_idefense
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=859
Patch, Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ms
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-017
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-068A.html
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023698

Scores

CVSS v3 7.8
EPSS 0.7144
EPSS Percentile 98.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-843
Status published
Products (9)
microsoft/excel 2002 sp3
microsoft/excel 2003 sp3
microsoft/excel 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_excel_viewer (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_sharepoint_server 2007 sp1 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
Published Mar 10, 2010
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026