CVE-2006-1302: Microsoft Excel

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 13.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Excel 2000 through 2003 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .xls file with certain crafted fields in a SELECTION record, which triggers memory corruption, aka "Malformed SELECTION record Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2004 only; version x only
• Microsoft Excel Viewer: version 2003 only

Published 2006-07-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.