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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3059

Original release date:06/17/2006

Last revised:03/07/2011

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:9.3 (HIGH) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 10.0

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

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US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-192A

Name: TA06-192A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-192A.html

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA06-167A

Name: TA06-167A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-167A.html

US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#802324

Name: VU#802324

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/802324

External Source: XF

Name: excel-unspecified-code-execution(27179)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27179