CVE-2006-3014: Microsoft Excel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 30.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Excel allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary javascript and redirect users to arbitrary sites via an Excel spreadsheet with an embedded Shockwave Flash Player ActiveX Object, which is automatically executed when the user opens the spreadsheet.

Affected products

• Microsoft Excel: any version

Published 2006-06-22. Last modified 2026-09-23.