CVE-2015-2520 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, 2010 SP2, Excel for Mac 2011 and 2016, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, and Excel Viewer. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system by enticing a user to open a specially crafted Office document. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but offering complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild (KEV), an exploit demonstrating a use-after-free condition has been publicly disclosed on ExploitDB. Despite its high risk score and public exploit, there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:x64:* | ||
2010CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2010:sp2:*:*:*:*:x86:* | ||
2011CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2011:*:*:*:*:mac:*:* | ||
2013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2013:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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