CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2009-0561

HIGHEPSS 98th pctl
9.3
CVSS v2
NVD

Description

Integer overflow in Excel in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 SP3, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; Excel in 2007 Microsoft Office System SP1 and SP2; Open XML File Format Converter for Mac; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 SP3; Microsoft Office Excel Viewer; Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1 and SP2; and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a Shared String Table (SST) record with a numeric field that specifies an invalid number of unique strings, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Record Integer Overflow Vulnerability."

CWE-189

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

36.90%probability of exploitation in 30 days
98thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.