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CVE-2006-6561
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and Word Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary…
High9.3EPSS 41.3%
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- mitre
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and Word Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOC file that triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated via the 12122006-djtest.doc file, a different issue than CVE-2006-5994 and CVE-2006-6456.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 41.3% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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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
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- affected n/a
References (12)
- 21589 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/15/update-on-current-word-vulnerability-reports.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1017390 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/13/HNthirdword_1.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/12122006-djtest.doc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20061212 Re: Re: The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061212.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- VU#996892 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4997 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=763 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- word-pointer-code-execution(30885) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:332 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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)
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