CVE-2010-0822
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 70.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a crafted OBJ (0x5D) record, aka "Excel Object Stack Overflow Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- MS11-038 Microsoft Office Excel Malformed OBJ Record Handling Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/ms10_038_excel_obj_bofRank normaldisclosed 8 Jun 2010
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Microsoft Excel - Malformed OBJ Record Handling Overflow (MS11-038) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18143local, windowspublished 22 Nov 2011Verified
- Microsoft Excel - OBJ Record Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 15094local, windowspublished 24 Sept 2010Verified
- Microsoft Excel - 0x5D record Stack Overflow (MS10-038) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 14361local, windowspublished 14 Jul 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 70.1% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 20100608 VUPEN Security Research - Microsoft Office Excel OBJ Stack Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2010-0822) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7265 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS10-038 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 40520 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 65236 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- TA10-159B (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0848 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-0822)Record last updated .