Intrusion PreventionMS.Excel.Malformed.Sheet.Name.Code.Execution
Description
This indicates an attempt to exploit a denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft Excel.
The vulnerability can be exploited via a malformed Excel file. A remote attacker can crash the application, and may also be able to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the victim.
Affected Products
Microsoft Excel 2003 SP2
Microsoft Excel 2000 SP2
Microsoft Excel 2007
Impact
System compromise: remote code execution.
Denial of service.
Recommended Actions
Currently we are not aware of any officially supplied fix for this issue.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 14755 |
| Created | Jul 06, 2007 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2007-3490 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 69.97% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | MS_Office |