CVE-2012-5672

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
16.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 5% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: October 25, 2012 (4949 days ago)
Last Modified: April 29, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Microsoft Excel Viewer (aka Xlview.exe) and Excel in Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read access violation and application crash) via a crafted spreadsheet file, as demonstrated by a .xls file with battery voltage data.

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft excelmicrosoft excel viewermicrosoft office

References

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