RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2006-2389
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office XP SP3, Office 2000 SP3, and other products, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Office file with a malformed property that triggers memory corruption related to record lengths, aka "Microsoft Office Property Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-1316.
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.387 (98.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.388 · newest: 0.387 · change: -0.001
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, xp
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/21012 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2756 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-038 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/18911 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/409316 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27609 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/27149 (vdb-entry)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-192A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:279 (signature, vdb-entry)