National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-1136

Overview

The Microsoft Office Web Components Spreadsheet ActiveX control (aka OWC10 or OWC11), as distributed in Office XP SP3 and Office 2003 SP3, Office XP Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP3, Office 2003 Web Components SP1 for the 2007 Microsoft Office System, Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server 2004 SP3 and 2006 Gold and SP1, and Office Small Business Accounting 2006, when used in Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted call to the msDataSourceObject method, as exploited in the wild in July and August 2009, aka "Office Web Components HTML Script Vulnerability."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: MS

Name: MS09-043

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/Bulletin/MS09-043.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://xeye.us/blog/2009/07/one-0day/

Hyperlink:http://xeye.us/blog/2009/07/one-0day/

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973472.mspx

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/973472.mspx

External Source: MISC

Name: http://trac.metasploit.com/browser/framework3/trunk/modules/exploits/windows/browser/owc_spreadsheet_msdso.rb

Hyperlink:http://trac.metasploit.com/browser/framework3/trunk/modules/exploits/windows/browser/owc_spreadsheet_msdso.rb

External Source: MISC

Name: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6778

Hyperlink:http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6778

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/07/13/more-information-about-the-office-web-components-activex-vulnerability.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/srd/archive/2009/07/13/more-information-about-the-office-web-components-activex-vulnerability.aspx

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/07/13/microsoft-security-advisory-973472-released.aspx

Hyperlink:http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2009/07/13/microsoft-security-advisory-973472-released.aspx