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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2005-4131 json

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted at…

published 2005-12-09 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-4126

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
31.1%
EPSS 31.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a malformed range, which could lead to memory corruption involving an argument to the msvcrt.memmove function, aka "Brand new Microsoft Excel Vulnerability," as originally placed for sale on eBay as item number 7203336538.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-26769)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

31.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-26769 Microsoft Excel 95/97/2000/2002/2003/2004 - Malformed Range Memory Corruption dos, 2005-12-08

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.