CVE-2015-2378 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2378?

CVE-2015-2378 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 14 Jul 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel Viewer 2007 SP3, and Office Compatibility Pack SP3 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, aka "Microsoft Excel DLL Remote Code Execution Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2378?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2378?

No fix has been published for CVE-2015-2378 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2015-2378 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2378 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-2w29-v996-wm97.