CVE-2006-0028

Excel vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

16.2%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BIFF parsing format file containing malformed BOOLERR records that lead to memory corruption, probably involving invalid pointers.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Excel

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-03-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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