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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.1

CVE-2006-0031 json

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000, 2002, and 2003, in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3 and other packages, allows user-assisted…

published 2006-03-14 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-0039

cvss
5.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.3%
EPSS 18.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow 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 record with a modified length value, which leads to memory corruption.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

18.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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.