An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could gain the same user rights as the local user. When using Internet Explorer, code execution is remote and may not require any user intervention.
This vulnerability exists in the ActiveX control used by IE to display Excel spreadsheets. Microsoft mentions that they are aware of active exploits against this vulnerability and at the moment there is no patch, just a a workaround. Workaround refers to a setting or configuration change that does not correct the underlying vulnerability but would help block known attack vectors before you apply the update. Microsoft advisory…
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