CVE-2010-1249
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 24.8%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 for Mac, Office 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed ExternName (0x23) record, aka "Excel Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-0823 and CVE-2010-1247.
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
- 24.8% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-1278)
- Published
- June 8, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-1278 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / open xml file format converter
References
- http://osvdb.org/65232
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511767/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40527
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html(US Government Resource)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-038
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6634
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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