CVE-2006-3867 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-3867?

CVE-2006-3867 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 10 Oct 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

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 for Mac, v.X for Mac, and Excel Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Lotus 1-2-3 file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-2387 and CVE-2006-3875.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3867?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Viewer.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3867?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3867 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-2006-3867 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3867 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-p5xq-v8rf-773v.