01 Record
CVE-2006-2388
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed cell comments, which lead to modification of "critical data offsets" during the
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: microsoft
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed cell comments, which lead to modification of "critical data offsets" during the
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 10.78% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-07-13 21:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:51Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-05-15
- Assigning CNA
- microsoft
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 7c747bd2d6e344d44cb276a0fb47b01b0c3e077b79af79bae5def4c37c6b3dc7
05 Affected products
06 References
- docs.microsoft.comMS06-037https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-037
- securitytracker.com1016472http://securitytracker.com/id?1016472
- www.securityfocus.com18938http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18938
- www.securityfocus.com20060711 ZDI-06-022: Microsoft Office Excel File Rebuilding Code Execution Vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/439786/100/0/threaded
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-2755http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2755
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:234https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A234
- www.zerodayinitiative.comhttp://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-022.html
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comexcel-cell-rebuilding-code-execution(27604)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27604