CVE-2015-6177 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Microsoft Excel 2007 SP3, Office Compatibility Pack SP3, and Excel Viewer. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system by enticing a user to open a specially crafted Office document. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it represents a high-severity risk, requiring user interaction (AC:M) but no authentication (Au:N) for a network-based attack (AV:N) that could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability (C:C/I:C/A:C). Despite its high severity and FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:*:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.