Excel Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-1999-0717

A remote attacker can disable the virus warning mechanism in Microsoft Excel 97.

CVE-1999-0794

Microsoft Excel does not warn a user when a macro is present in a Symbolic Link (SYLK) format file.

CVE-1999-1055

Microsoft Excel 97 does not warn the user before executing worksheet functions, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands by using the CALL function to execute a malicious DLL, aka the Excel "CALL Vulnerability."

CVE-2000-0277

Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000 does not warn the user when executing Excel Macro Language (XLM) macros in external text files, which could allow an attacker to execute a macro virus, aka the "XLM Text Macro" vulnerability.

CVE-2000-0419

The Office 2000 UA ActiveX Control is marked as "safe for scripting," which allows remote attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via the "Show Me" function in Office Help, aka the "Office 2000 UA Control" vulnerability.

CVE-2000-0597

Microsoft Office 2000 (Excel and PowerPoint) and PowerPoint 97 are marked as safe for scripting, which allows remote attackers to force Internet Explorer or some email clients to save files to arbitrary locations via the Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) SaveAs function, aka the "Office HTML Scri...

CVE-2000-0637

Microsoft Excel 97 and 2000 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by specifying a malicious .dll using the Register.ID function, aka the "Excel REGISTER.ID Function" vulnerability.

CVE-2000-0765

Buffer overflow in the HTML interpreter in Microsoft Office 2000 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands via a long embedded object tag, aka the "Microsoft Office HTML Object Tag" vulnerability.

CVE-2001-0718

Vulnerability in (1) Microsoft Excel 2002 and earlier and (2) Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 and earlier allows attackers to bypass macro restrictions and execute arbitrary commands by modifying the data stream in the document.

CVE-2002-0152

Buffer overflow in various Microsoft applications for Macintosh allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code by invoking the file:// directive with a large number of / characters, which affects Internet Explorer 5.1, Outlook Express 5.0 through 5.0.2, Entou...

CVE-2002-0615

The Windows Media Active Playlist in Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.1 stores information in a well known location on the local file system, allowing attackers to execute HTML scripts in the Local Computer zone, aka "Media Playback Script Invocation".

CVE-2002-0616

The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code by attaching an inline macro to an object within an Excel workbook, aka the "Excel Inline Macros Vulnerability."

CVE-2002-0617

The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code by creating a hyperlink on a drawing shape in a source workbook that points to a destination workbook containing an autoexecute macro, aka "Hyperlinked Excel Workbook Macro Bypass."

CVE-2002-0618

The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code in the Local Computer zone by embedding HTML scripts within an Excel workbook that contains an XSL stylesheet, aka "Excel XSL Stylesheet Script Execution".

CVE-2002-1143

Microsoft Word and Excel allow remote attackers to steal sensitive information via certain field codes that insert the information when the document is returned to the attacker, as demonstrated in Word using (1) INCLUDETEXT or (2) INCLUDEPICTURE, aka "Flaw in Word Fields and Excel External Updates ...

CVE-2004-0200

Buffer overflow in the JPEG (JPG) parsing engine in the Microsoft Graphic Device Interface Plus (GDI+) component, GDIPlus.dll, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JPEG image with a small JPEG COM field length that is normalized to a large integer length before a memory copy oper...

CVE-2004-0846

Unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2001 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious file containing certain parameters that are not properly validated.

CVE-2005-4131

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed range, which could lead to memory corruption involving an argument to the msvcrt.memmove fu...

CVE-2006-0028

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BIFF parsing format file containing malformed BOOLERR records that lead to memory corruption, probably involving invalid...

CVE-2006-0029

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed description, which leads to memory corruption.

CVE-2006-0030

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed graphic, which leads to memory corruption.

CVE-2006-1301

Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with a crafted SELECTION record that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-1302.

CVE-2006-1302

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with certain crafted fields in a SELECTION record, which triggers memory corruption, aka "Malformed SELECTION record Vulnerability."

CVE-2006-1304

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with a crafted COLINFO record, which triggers the overflow during a "data filling operation."

CVE-2006-1306

Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with a crafted BIFF record with an attacker-controlled array index that is used for a function pointer, aka "Malformed OBJECT record Vulnerability."

CVE-2006-1308

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with a crafted FNGROUPCOUNT value.

CVE-2006-1309

Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with a crafted LABEL record that triggers memory corruption.

CVE-2006-2388

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed cell comments, which lead to modification of "critical data offsets" during the rebuilding process.

CVE-2006-3014

Microsoft Excel allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary javascript and redirect users to arbitrary sites via an Excel spreadsheet with an embedded Shockwave Flash Player ActiveX Object, which is automatically executed when the user opens the spreadsheet.

CVE-2006-3059

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3086.

CVE-2006-3431

Buffer overflow in certain Asian language versions of Microsoft Excel might allow user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted STYLE record in a spreadsheet that triggers the overflow when the user attempts to repair the document or selects the "Style" option, as demonstrated by ...

CVE-2006-3867

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 for Mac, v.X for Mac, and Excel Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Lotus 1-2-3 file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2387 and CVE-2006-3875.

CVE-2006-3875

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 for Mac, v.X for Mac, and Excel Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted COLINFO record in an XLS file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2387 and CVE-2006-3867.

CVE-2006-3877

Unspecified vulnerability in PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, Office 2002, Office 2003, Office 2004 for Mac, and Office v.X for Mac allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an unspecified "crafted file," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3435, CVE-2006-4694, and CVE-20...

CVE-2007-0027

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed IMDATA records that trigger memory corruption.

CVE-2007-0028

Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, Viewer 2003, Office 2004 for Mac, and Office v.X for Mac does not properly handle certain opcodes, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted XLS file, which results in an "Improper Memory Access Vulnerability." NOTE: an ear...

CVE-2007-0029

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed string, aka "Excel Malformed String Vulnerability."

CVE-2007-0030

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with an out-of-range Column field in certain BIFF8 record types, which references arbitrary memory.

CVE-2007-0031

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BIFF8 spreadsheet with a PALETTE record that contains a large number of entries.

CVE-2007-0215

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, and 2003 Viewer allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .XLS BIFF file with a malformed Named Graph record, which results in memory corruption.

CVE-2007-0671

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003, and 2004 for Mac, and possibly other Office products, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors, as demonstrated by Exploit-MSExcel.h in targeted zero-day attacks.

CVE-2007-1203

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2003 Viewer, 2004 for Mac, and 2007 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted set font value in an Excel file, which results in memory corruption.

CVE-2007-1214

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2003 Viewer, and 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AutoFilter filter record in an Excel BIFF8 format XLS file, which triggers memory corruption.

CVE-2007-1239

Microsoft Excel 2003 does not properly parse .XLS files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a file with a (1) corrupted XML format or a (2) corrupted XLS format, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

CVE-2007-1756

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2003 Viewer, and Office Excel 2007 does not properly validate version information, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka "Calculation Error Vulnerability".

CVE-2007-3029

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP2 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed Excel file containing multiple active worksheets, which results in memory corruption.

CVE-2007-3030

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, and 2003 Viewer allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed Excel file involving the "denoting [of] the start of a Workspace designation", which results in memory corruption, aka the "Workbook Memory Corruption Vulner...

CVE-2007-3490

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via unspecified vectors, possibly related to the sheet name, as demonstrated by 2670.xls.

CVE-2007-3890

Microsoft Excel in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP2, and Office 2004 for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Workspace with a certain index value that triggers memory corruption.

CVE-2008-0081

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted macros, aka "Macro Validation Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3490.