CVE-2011-1272

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-20 Input Validation

Publication date:

16/06/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Excel Viewer SP2; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP2 do not properly validate record structures during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted spreadsheet, aka "Excel Insufficient Record Validation Vulnerability."

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

9.30

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer::sp2::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:::mac:::::*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:sp3::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer::sp2::::::*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008::mac:::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp2::::::
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:::mac:::::*

CVE-2011-1272

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools