CVE-2006-0029

Excel vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

14.6%

EPSS pct

96th

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 an Excel file with a malformed description, which leads to memory corruption.

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 14.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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