CVE-2006-2388: Microsoft Excel

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 10.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 through 2004 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed cell comments, which lead to modification of "critical data offsets" during the rebuilding process.

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.