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CVE-2016-7262

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel 2013 SP1, Excel 2013 RT SP1, Excel 2016, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, and Excel Viewer all

Published
Last modified
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Listed in CISA KEV
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Microsoft Excel and related spreadsheet software, including Excel 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016, the Office Compatibility Pack, and Excel Viewer, are affected. An attacker could trick a user into clicking a specially crafted cell, allowing the attacker to run arbitrary commands on the user's computer.

Summarized by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5. Verify details against the original sources.

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Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Excel 2010 SP2, Excel 2013 SP1, Excel 2013 RT SP1, Excel 2016, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, and Excel Viewer allow user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted cell that is mishandled upon a click, aka "Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability."

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Added to CISA KEV

    CISA has evidence of exploitation in the wild

  3. CISA remediation deadline

    Due date for US federal agencies to patch

  4. Record last updated
  5. EPSS reached 10%

    FIRST estimates at least a 10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

References 3

docs.microsoft.com

securityfocus.com

securitytracker.com