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CVE-2010-0815

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 22.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-05-12 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

VBE6.DLL in Microsoft Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, 2007 Microsoft Office System SP1 and SP2, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), and VBA SDK 6.3 through 6.5 does not properly search for ActiveX controls that are embedded in documents, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted document, aka "VBE6.DLL Stack Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: 2003-sp3, 2007-sp1, 2007-sp2, xp-sp3
• Microsoft Visual Basic For Applications: all versions
• Microsoft Visual Basic Sdk: 6.3, 6.4, 6.5

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-131A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-031
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7074
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-131A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-031
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7074

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