CVE-2011-1279
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac do not properly validate…
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- microsoft
Description
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac do not properly validate record information during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Out of Bounds WriteAV Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
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)
- 17.0% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- ms-excel-writeav-ce(67717) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:12373 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 48164 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS11-045 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_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)
- 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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