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CVE-2006-3435

HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 37.3%EU EUVD

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in this field, which triggers an erroneous object pointer calculation that uses data from within the document. NOTE: this issue is different than other PowerPoint vulnerabilities including CVE-2006-4694.

Key facts

CVSS score
9.3 (v2.0)
Severity
HIGH
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-94
EPSS score
37.3% (99th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2006-3431)
Published
October 10, 2006
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3431 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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