CVE-2006-6753

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.1
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P
EPSS Score
0.6%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 30% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Adjacent
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
P
Published: December 27, 2006 (7078 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

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.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft windows event viewer

References

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