Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted…

Description

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 range, which could lead to memory corruption involving an argument to the msvcrt.memmove function, aka "Brand new Microsoft Excel Vulnerability," as originally placed for sale on eBay as item number 7203336538.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

31.1% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (25)

• excel-msvcrt-memmove-bo(23537) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7203336538 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 15780 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://www.eweek.com/article2/0%2C1759%2C1899697%2C00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000614 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 584 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=174910198 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2006-0950 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-5989078.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://www.theage.com.au/news/breaking/excel-flaw-up-for-sale-on-ebay/2005/12/09/1134086783318.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-069.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 591 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 19238 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/10/ebay_pulls_excel_vulnerability_auction/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• TA06-073A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 19138 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.osvdb.org/blog/?p=71 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1015333 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20060314 High Risk Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.dicks-blog.com/archives/2005/12/08/excel-vulnerability-for-sale/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 1015766 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• VU#642428 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 20060315 [HV-HIGH] Microsoft Excel Named Range Arbitrary Code Execution (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11363 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://news.com.com/2061-10789_3-5988086.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• MS06-012 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 23:31 UTC.