Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works…

Description

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

33.7% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (17)

• 30824 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
• 20061206 Microsoft 0-day word vulnerability - Secunia - Extremely critical (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20061208 Microsoft Word 0-day Vulnerability FAQ (CVE-2006-5994) written (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• word-unspecified-code-execution(30738) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 23232 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• TA07-044A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:238 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2006-4866 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• MS07-014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• VU#167928 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
• 1017339 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 21451 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20061210 Several updates in Microsoft Word 0-day (CVE-2006-5994) FAQ document (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred

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)
• 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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2006-5994](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-5994.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-5994)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:12 UTC.