01 Record
CVE-2011-1278
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac do not properly validate record information during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: microsoft
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac do not properly validate record information during parsing of Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 16.96% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2011-06-16 20:21Z15 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 22:21Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2011-03-04
- Assigning CNA
- microsoft
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9c93832e317a64fe6883dd34fb3646cf467f38bb54de46b3779fb6977cd7c843
05 Affected products
06 References
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:12687https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12687
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comexcel-writeav-ce(67716)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/67716
- www.securityfocus.com48163http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/48163
- docs.microsoft.comMS11-045https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-045