What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2004-1301

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 6.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Buffer overflow in the book_format_sql function in format.c for xlreader 0.9.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel (XLS) file.

Affected products

• Xlreader: 0.9

References

• http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/xlreader.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18612
• http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/xlreader.txt
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18612

Get alerted when CVE-2004-1301 or the next vulnerability affects your stack