Sploitus

Exploit for Microsoft Excel conditional formatting vulnerability

saint · 2008-03-14

Exploit Code

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## https://sploitus.com/exploit?id=SAINT:4FB2B8230025F5AED01D6CFE33244500
Added: 03/14/2008  
CVE: CVE-2008-0117  
BID: 28170  
OSVDB: 42731  


### Background

Microsoft Excel, part of the Microsoft Office product suite, is a spreadsheet application for Windows and Macintosh platforms. 

### Problem

A vulnerability in Microsoft Excel allows command execution when a user opens a file containing specially crafted conditional formatting values. 

### Resolution

See Microsoft Security Bulletin 08-014 for update information. 

### References

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-014.mspx   


### Limitations

Exploit works on Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 and requires a user to open a specially crafted file in Microsoft Excel. 

### Platforms

Windows 2000  
Windows XP