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Microsoft Office Excel Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2007-0671

What this means

This is rated high severity (8.8 out of 10). It is on the known-exploited catalogue, which means attacks using it have already been seen. Ask IT whether Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Excel Viewer, and 11 more are in your estate, and treat that as the priority.

Full vendor description

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.

Scoring and exploitation

8.8/ 10
CVSS 3.1 base scoreHigh

Exploitable over the network without any account, but only if a user takes an action, such as opening a file or link. High impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploitability

Longer bar: easier to attack

Attack vectorNetworkAV:N
Attack complexityLowAC:L
Privileges requiredNonePR:N
User interactionRequiredUI:R
ScopeUnchangedS:U

Impact

Longer bar: more harm

ConfidentialityHighC:H
IntegrityHighI:H
AvailabilityHighA:H
Elevated attack likelihood (~44.1% in 30 days)Model estimate (): a probability signal, not confirmed exploitation
Exploited in the wild
Yes — confirmed exploitation (US CISA )
Not reported
Listed product
Microsoft Office

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected products ()

  • Microsoft Access
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Excel Viewer
  • Microsoft Frontpage
  • Microsoft Infopath
  • Microsoft Office
  • Microsoft Onenote
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Powerpoint
  • Microsoft Project
  • Microsoft Publisher
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Microsoft Word
  • Microsoft Word Viewer
Show the raw CPE strings (34)
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:access:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:access:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:access:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:infopath:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:onenote:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:outlook:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2002:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2000:sr1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2002:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Showing 25 of 34 matches from .

References

20 links from the CVE record, grouped by site; the vendor's advisory comes first.

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