Microsoft’s CVE-2026-20956 for Microsoft Excel is titled a “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability while its published CVSS vector lists the Attack Vector as Local (AV:L)—a pairing that looks contradictory at first glance but is intentional: the CVE title communicates the attacker’s origin and...
Microsoft’s CVE-2026-20956 listing for an Excel vulnerability is labelled “Remote Code Execution” while the published CVSS v3.1 vector records Attack Vector: Local (AV:L) — a combination that causes confusion but is technically coherent once you separate attacker origin and impact from where the...