PT-2010-2547 · Microsoft · Office Excel

Published 2010-06-08 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2010-0821

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Office Excel (affected versions not specified)

Description A remote code execution issue exists in the way Microsoft Office Excel handles specially crafted Excel files. An attacker who successfully exploits this could take complete control of an affected system, allowing them to install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

RCE

Code Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-94

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-0821

ZDI-10-104

Affected Products

Office Excel

References · 10

• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-104 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0821 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-038 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0821 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/MS10-038 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/511729/100/0/threaded · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6771 · Note
• http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-104 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-0821 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html · Note