CVE-2012-5672
Microsoft Excel Viewer (aka Xlview.exe) and Excel in Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read access violation and application crash) via a crafted spreadsheet file, as demonstrated by a .xls file…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 12.5%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Microsoft Excel Viewer (aka Xlview.exe) and Excel in Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read access violation and application crash) via a crafted spreadsheet file, as demonstrated by a .xls file with battery voltage data.
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 12.53% probability · 96th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 11 October 2012
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/excel · microsoft/excel viewer · microsoft/office
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 12.5% since 4 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.