CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.3. It affects Microsoft, Office. Its EPSS score suggests a 26.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It may be remotely exploitable.
CVE
CVE-2011-0979
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
9.3
EPSS
26.52%
Microsoft Office
Original NVD Description
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2, and 2010; Office 2004, 2008, and 2011 for Mac; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; and Excel Viewer SP2 do not properly handle errors during the parsing of Office Art records in Excel spreadsheets, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object record, related to a "stray reference," aka "Excel Linked List Corruption Vulnerability."