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CVE-2010-3241

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 21.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-10-13 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac do not properly validate binary file-format information, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel document, aka "Out-of-Bounds Memory Write in Parsing Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1: 2002-sp3
• Microsoft Office: 2004, 2008
• Microsoft Open Xml File Format Converter: all versions

References

• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-080
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6738
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-285A.html
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-080
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6738

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