CVE-2006-5574

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Unspecified vulnerability in the Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker in Microsoft Office 2003 and the Multilingual Inte

Unspecified vulnerability in the Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker in Microsoft Office 2003 and the Multilingual Interface for Office 2003, Project 2003, and Visio 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted text that is not properly parsed.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.43534

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EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

Sigma rules8 YARA rules0

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Affected Products & Versions

microsoft officeall versions
microsoft office multilingual user interface packall versions
microsoft office proofing toolsall versions
microsoft project multilingual user interface packall versions
microsoft visioall versions

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Sigma Hunt Rules

Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.

producthighSuspicious Microsoft Office Child Process - MacOS

producthighCode Executed Via Office Add-in XLL File

producthighPotential Persistence Via Microsoft Office Add-In

producthighPotential Persistence Via Microsoft Office Startup Folder

producthighFile With Uncommon Extension Created By An Office Application

producthighOffice Macro File Creation From Suspicious Process

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producthighUncommon File Created In Office Startup Folder

producthighPotentially Suspicious Office Document Executed From Trusted Location

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Scoring & Timeline

9.3

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secure@microsoft.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published to NVD31 Dec 2006 · 05:00 AM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://secunia.com/advisories/23671Third Party Advisory

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017486Third Party Advisory

http://www.osvdb.org/31251Broken Link

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/457274/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21942Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0102Third Party Advisory

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https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-001

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