RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2006-3864
Unspecified vulnerability in mso.dll in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, and 2003, and Microsoft PowerPoint 2000, XP, and 2003, allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed record in a (1) .DOC, (2) .PPT, or (3) .XLS file that triggers memory corruption, related to an "array boundary condition" (possibly an array index overflow), a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3434, CVE-2006-3650, 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: 0.338 (98.3th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.322 · newest: 0.338 · change: +0.016
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, 2004
- Microsoft Project — versions 2000, 2002
- Microsoft Visio — versions 2002
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:632 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/29429 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/176556 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secway.org/advisory/AD20061010.txt
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20384 (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062 (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/448268/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)