RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2006-3650
Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac do not properly parse the length of a chart record, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with an embedded malformed chart record that triggers an overwrite of pointer values with values from the document, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3434, CVE-2006-3864, and CVE-2006-3868.
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: 0.385 (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: 0.368 · newest: 0.385 · change: +0.017
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2001, 2003
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20383 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448151/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.osvdb.org/29428 (vdb-entry, Broken Link)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-034.html (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062 (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:222 (signature, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/534276 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)