CVE-2004-0846 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2004-0846?

CVE-2004-0846 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 16 Oct 2004. 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

Unknown vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2001 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malicious file containing certain parameters that are not properly validated.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2004-0846?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2004-0846?

No fix has been published for CVE-2004-0846 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-2004-0846 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2004-0846 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2016-7262 Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-3129 Microsoft Excel Featheader Record Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8

All Microsoft Excel vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-7fvf-4h9p-wfw6.