Microsoft Office: Remote Code Execution
What to do: Update Microsoft Office or Microsoft 365, then restart the apps.
- Affects
- Microsoft Office
- Identifier
- CVE-2009-0238
- What it is
- Microsoft Office Excel contains a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to take complete control of an affected system if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file that includes a malformed object.
- Official guidance
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.