{"id":"CVE-2011-0979","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-0979","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:20:34.874Z","title":"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…","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.\"","published":"2011-02-10T19:00:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:28:22.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":9.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["microsoft/excel","microsoft/excel viewer","microsoft/office","microsoft/office compatibility pack","microsoft/open xml file format converter"],"epss":{"score":0.26523,"percentile":0.98,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 26.5%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/70904","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/39122","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/43231","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12595","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/blog/2011/02/07/zdi-disclosure-microsoft","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://osvdb.org/70904","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/39122","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/43231","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1025337","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA11-102A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0940","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-11-041/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2011/ms11-021","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12595","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0979","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}