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CVE-2006-5994

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for

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.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.59649
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.50 - high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
  • 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

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microsoft officeall versions
microsoft wordall versions
microsoft word viewerall versions
microsoft worksall versions
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Sigma Hunt Rules

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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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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 NVD06 Dec 2006 · 08:28 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=759
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/06/microsoft-security-advisory-929433-posted.aspx
http://secunia.com/advisories/23232Vendor Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017339
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005698&intsrc=hm_list
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/167928US Government Resource
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