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CVE-2010-1248

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1248 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2002 SP3 and Office 2004 for Mac. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious Excel file containing a malformed HFPicture (0x866) record. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a medium attack complexity, but resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Although not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, indicating a potential for exploitation, despite a lack of significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2004CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
27.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-15065 · Sep 21, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2718 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

osvdb.org / 65235
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2010/ms10-038
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7223
securityfocus.com / archive/1/511765/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/40526
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA10-159B.html
US Government Resource