Vulnerability in Microsoft Office
CVE-2006-5994
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.
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: 0.320 (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: 0.313 · newest: 0.320 · change: +0.007
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, 2004
- Microsoft Word — versions 2000, 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Word Viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Works — versions 2004, 2005, 2006
References
- www.osvdb.org/30824 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738 (vdb-entry)
- www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
- secunia.com/advisories/23232 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-po…
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:238 (signature, vdb-entry)
- blogs.securiteam.com/