CVE-2012-5672

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.125 · 96 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

12.5% (96th) EPSS

CVSS 4.3 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Microsoft Excel Viewer (aka Xlview.exe) and Excel in Microsoft Office 2007 (aka Office 12) allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (read access violation and application crash) via a crafted spreadsheet file, as demonstrated by a .xls file with battery voltage data.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.9–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9

v2.03.9lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USLLM-inferredCWE-476USLLM-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-37980Microsoft Excel - Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft excel= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft excel viewerall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2012-10-25modified 2026-06-16

references (3)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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