Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) in Microsoft Windows does not properly display log data that contains '%' (percent) characters, which might…

Description

Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) in Microsoft Windows does not properly display log data that contains '%' (percent) characters, which might make it impossible to use Event Viewer to determine the actual data that triggered an event, and might produce long strings that are not properly handled by certain processes that rely on Event Viewer.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.1.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (5)

• 20061221 Re[2]: [Full-disclosure] Fun with event logs (semi-offtopic) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20061221 RE: Re[2]: [Full-disclosure] Fun with event logs (semi-offtopic) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20061221 Re: [Full-disclosure] Fun with event logs (semi-offtopic) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20061221 Fun with event logs (semi-offtopic) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 20061221 RE: [Full-disclosure] Fun with event logs (semi-offtopic) (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-2006-6753](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2006-6753.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2006-6753)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:42 UTC.