CVE-2011-0978
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Office 2004 for Mac; Excel Viewer SP2; and Office…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 42.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Office 2004 for Mac; Excel Viewer SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via vectors related to an axis properties record, and improper incrementing of an array index, aka "Excel Array Indexing Vulnerability."
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Excel - Axis Properties Record Parsing Buffer Overflow (PoC) (MS11-02) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 17227dos, windowspublished 29 Apr 2011Verified
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Timeline
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By mitre
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 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)
- 42.6% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (10 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
10
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12439 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA11-102A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 39122 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43232 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-042/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1025337 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS11-021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 8231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0940 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2011-0990 (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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