cve-2007-0671
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2007-02-03 01:00
Modified
2024-08-07 12:26
Severity ?
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000, XP, 2003, and 2004 for Mac, and possibly other Office products, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown attack vectors, as demonstrated by Exploit-MSExcel.h in targeted zero-day attacks.
Impacted products
n/an/a
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