Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, Excel Viewer, and Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2007 SP3 allow remote attack…

published 2017-03-17 9y ago modified 2026-06-17 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-0373

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 17.6%; EPSS 17.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 0; none known

Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, Excel Viewer, and Excel Services on SharePoint Server 2007 SP3 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted document, aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This vulnerability is different from those described in CVE-2017-0019, CVE-2017-0020, CVE-2017-0030, CVE-2017-0031, CVE-2017-0052, and CVE-2017-0053.

Patch / fix

links 1

portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0006 advisory

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Exploit prediction

17.64% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	9.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

Microsoft Corporation Office

Classification

Weakness

CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

portal.msrc.microsoft.com /en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2017-0006
patch, vendor-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1038010
vdb-entry
securityfocus.com /bid/96740
vdb-entry, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-0006
NVD CVE-2017-0006

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