CVE-2006-3059

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 41.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-17 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2004 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. NOTE: this is a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3086.

Affected products

Microsoft Excel 2013 Service Pack 1: 2000, 2000-sp2, 2000-sp3, 2000-sr1, 2002, 2002-sp1 (+5)
Microsoft Excel Viewer: 2003

References

http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=451
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/06/16/436174.aspx
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1420
http://secunia.com/advisories/20686
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016316
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/802324
http://www.osvdb.org/26527
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437636/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/437936/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18422
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-167A.html
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-192A.html

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