CVE-2006-5994

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
59.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: December 6, 2006 (7098 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-noinfo

Affected Products

microsoft officemicrosoft wordmicrosoft word viewermicrosoft works

References

🔗 blogs.securiteam.com 🔗 blogs.technet.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com 🔗 www.computerworld.com