CVE-2010-3238 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2010-3238?

CVE-2010-3238 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 13 Oct 2010. 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

Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and 2003 SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac, does not properly validate binary file-format information, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel document, aka "Negative Future Function Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-3238?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2010-3238?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-3238 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-2010-3238 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-3238 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel

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• CVE-2009-0238 Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• 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-75c7-jhv8-2qrh.