CVE-2006-3059 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-3059?

CVE-2006-3059 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 17 Jun 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3059?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Viewer.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3059?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3059 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-2006-3059 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-3059 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-qfq4-v5cr-vvr4.