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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2007-0031 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows user-assisted remote attac…

published 2007-01-09 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-0035

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
42.2%
EPSS 42.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BIFF8 spreadsheet with a PALETTE record that contains a large number of entries.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-3193)

Exploit prediction

42.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-3193 Microsoft Excel - Malformed Palette Record Denial of Service (PoC) (MS07-002) dos, 2007-01-25

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.