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Ancient Excel bug comes out of retirement for active attacks

ID: ac926a6b-ce9b-530e-971c-0774e3cc6b69

STIX ID: report--ac926a6b-ce9b-530e-971c-0774e3cc6b69

Feed Name: The Register (Security)

Threat Score
70/100

Date Published: 2026-04-15

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Connor Jones

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CISA added a 17‑year‑old critical Excel RCE (CVE-2009-0238) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation and also listed a recently exploited SharePoint spoofing zero‑day (CVE-2026-32201); Microsoft advisories, the historical connection of the Excel bug to Trojan.Mdropper.AC, and CISA's accelerated two‑week patch deadline for federal agencies are highlighted.

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