Vulnerability · CVE-2011-0101
Microsoft Excel Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Published Sep 29, 2016 · catalog updated Sep 29, 2016 · Microsoft Excel
Patch now
CVE-2011-0101 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Microsoft Excel against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Gaps on this record
- No version range is stored. A customer cannot check an installed version against this record.
- Severity
- Unknown—
- Known exploitation
- CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 29.97%
- Remediation
- Remediation guidance
- Affected products
- vendor Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted RealTimeData record, related to a stTopic field, double-byte characters, and an incorrect pointer calculation, aka "Excel Record Parsing WriteAV Vulnerability."
Are you affected?
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- vendor Microsoft Excelversion unspecified
How to fix CVE-2011-0101
Recommended remediation
Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
CVE-2011-0101 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Microsoft Excel against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.
Which versions are affected?
Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
What should an analyst verify?
No weakness class is stored. EPSS 29.97%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.
No public source repository is identified for this product.
Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Sep 29, 2016 · VulnCheck KEV
Detected
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted RealTimeData record, related to a stTopic field, double-byte characters, and an incorrect pointer calculation, aka "Excel Record Parsing WriteAV Vulnerability."
Sep 29, 2016 · CISA KEV
Known exploited
Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2011-0101
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2011-0101
30-day exploitation probability 30.0%
first.org - VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2011-0101
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted RealTimeData record, related to a stTopic field, double-byte characters, and an incorrect pointer calculation, aka "Excel Record Parsing Write
vulncheck.com
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.