Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (CVE-2006-3014)
Summary
Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel (CVE-2006-3014). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2006-3014 has been found in Microsoft Excel.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "Microsoft Excel CVE-2006-3014" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2006-3014 (Microsoft Excel) — CWE-20
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-20) exists in Microsoft Excel.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of Microsoft Excel.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'Excel' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'Excel' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
Excelを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- exploit archives.neohapsis.com
- exploit hackingspirits.com
- exploit securityfocus.com
- patch secunia.com
- patch secunia.com
- patch securityfocus.com
- patch vupen.com
- patch vupen.com
- patch vupen.com
- web securitytracker.com
- web adobe.com
- web securiteam.com
- web us-cert.gov
- web docs.microsoft.com
- web exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- web oval.cisecurity.org