PT-2018-1254 · Microsoft · Office Excel+1

Jaanus Kääp · Published 2018-04-10 · Updated 2023-10-03 · CVE-2018-1029

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 Excel (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Excel software. It occurs when the software fails to properly handle objects in memory, allowing an attacker to run arbitrary code in the context of the current user. If the current user has administrative user rights, the attacker could take control of the affected system, install programs, view, change, or delete data, or create new accounts with full user rights. Users with limited user rights on the system are less impacted than those operating with administrative user rights.

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

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

BDU:2018-00730

CVE-2018-1029

Affected Products

Office Excel

Office

References · 7

• https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2018-1029 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1029 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-00730 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1029 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1029 · Security Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/103617 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id/1040652 · Note