CVE-2002-0618 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2002-0618?

CVE-2002-0618 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 2 Apr 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Macro Security Model in Microsoft Excel 2000 and 2002 for Windows allows remote attackers to execute code in the Local Computer zone by embedding HTML scripts within an Excel workbook that contains an XSL stylesheet, aka "Excel XSL Stylesheet Script Execution".

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-0618?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2002-0618?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-0618 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2002-0618 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2002-0618 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7xwj-vwvc-4m7v.