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CVE-2006-2492
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006,…
High8.8Known exploitedEPSS 48.1%
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Description
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Jun 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 22 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 48.1% · top 1.1% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (18)
- MS06-027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:2068 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1345 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 25635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/919637.mspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1738 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1346 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- TA06-164A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- ADV-2006-1872 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 18037 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20153 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- word-code-execution(26556) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- VU#446012 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 1016130 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1418 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA06-139A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/05/19/429353.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2006-2492 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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