CVE-2006-3014 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-3014?

CVE-2006-3014 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 22 Jun 2006. 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 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary javascript and redirect users to arbitrary sites via an Excel spreadsheet with an embedded Shockwave Flash Player ActiveX Object, which is automatically executed when the user opens the spreadsheet.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3014?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Microsoft Excel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3014?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3014 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-2006-3014 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-3014 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-4v5q-p386-f6mv.