CVE•Published 2009-02-25•Modified 2026-04-14•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data
CVE-2009-0238Microsoft · Excel
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
99
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 1% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP1; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Excel Viewer; Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats SP1; and Excel in Microsoft Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel document that triggers an access attempt on an invalid object, as exploited in the wild in February 2009 by Trojan.Mdropper.AC.
Timeline
Published 2009-02-25
Modified 2026-04-14
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts
vuln:CVE-2009-0238Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.
Shodan · product + version
product:"Microsoft Excel" version:"2004"Version-pinned fingerprint from NVD's first vulnerable CPE.
Shodan · banner/body mention
http.html:"Excel"HTTP body or banner mentions "Excel" — catches deploys Shodan didn't identify as a product.
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2009-0238Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2009-0238Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2009-0238Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2009-0238GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2009-0238" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2009-0238 on GitHub.