Microsoft Excel Viewer 3.x OCX ActiveX Control stack-based overflow
CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Excel Viewer 3.x (Spreadsheet Software). It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown part of the component OCX ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the ExcelOCX ActiveX control in ExcelViewer.ocx 3.1.0.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) via a long (1) DoOleCommand, (2) FTPDownloadFile, (3) FTPUploadFile, (4) HttpUploadFile, (5) Save, (6) SaveWebFile, (7) HttpDownloadFile, (8) Open, or (9) OpenWebFile property value. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
The weakness was presented 05/02/2007 by shinnai (Website). The advisory is shared for download at moaxb.blogspot.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2007-2495 since 05/03/2007. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.
A public exploit has been developed by shinnai and been published immediately after the advisory. The exploit is shared for download at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. As 0-day the estimated underground price was around $100k and more.
The best possible mitigation is suggested to be disabling the affected component. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 11181.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (34011) and Exploit-DB (3830).
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CPE 2.3
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Class: Stack-based overflowCWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown
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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: shinnai
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Snort ID: 11181
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Sources
Vendor: microsoft.comAdvisory: moaxb.blogspot.com
Researcher: shinnai
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2007-2495 (🔍)
X-Force: 34011 - Office Excel Viewer OCX ExcelViewer.ocx ActiveX buffer overflow, High Risk
SecurityFocus: 23755 - Office OCX ExcelViewer.OCX Excel Viewer ActiveX Denial of Service Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 25077 - Excel Viewer OCX ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 34333 - Excel Viewer OCX ActiveX (ExcelViewer.ocx) Multiple Method Overflows
Vupen: ADV-2007-1613
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
Entry
Created: 05/10/2007 14:09Changes: 05/10/2007 14:09 (79)
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