CVE-2006-0028: Microsoft Excel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 16.2% 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 a BIFF parsing format file containing malformed BOOLERR records that lead to memory corruption, probably involving invalid pointers.

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2004 only; version x only
• Microsoft Office: version 2000 only; version 2003 only; version 2004 only; version v.x only; version xp only

Published 2006-03-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.