CVE-2014-6361 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-6361?

CVE-2014-6361 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 11 Dec 2014. 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 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel 2013 Gold and SP1, Excel 2013 RT Gold and SP1, and Office Compatibility Pack allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document, aka "Excel Invalid Pointer Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-6361?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

How do I fix CVE-2014-6361?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-6361 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-2014-6361 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-6361 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel

• CVE-2019-1297 Microsoft Excel Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.8
• 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-mw2x-vrf6-rqfv.