CVE-2005-4131: Microsoft Excel

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 31.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: version 95 only; version 97 only; version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only

Published 2005-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.