CVE-1999-1055 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-1999-1055?

CVE-1999-1055 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 9 Mar 2002. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Excel 97 does not warn the user before executing worksheet functions, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands by using the CALL function to execute a malicious DLL, aka the Excel "CALL Vulnerability."

Which versions are affected by CVE-1999-1055?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Excel.

How do I fix CVE-1999-1055?

No fix has been published for CVE-1999-1055 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-1999-1055 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-1999-1055 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-cx75-p9pm-2q97.