CVE-2010-0263
Microsoft Office Excel 2007 SP1 and SP2; Office 2008 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Office Excel Viewer SP1 and SP2; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2; and Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and SP2 do not validate ZIP headers during decompression of Open XML (.XLSX) documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document that triggers access to uninitialized memory locations, aka "Microsoft Office Excel XLSX File Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 25.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-0294)
- Published
- March 10, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-0294 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office compatibility pack
- microsoft / office compatibility pack
- microsoft / office excel viewer
- microsoft / office excel viewer
- microsoft / office sharepoint server
- microsoft / office sharepoint server
- microsoft / office sharepoint server
- microsoft / office sharepoint server
- microsoft / open xml file format converter
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/509979/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1023698
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-068A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-10-025/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-017
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A8407
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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