CVE-2006-3449
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 42.8%EU EUVD
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 through 2003, possibly a buffer overflow, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed record in the BIFF file format used in a PPT file, a different issue than CVE-2006-1540, aka "Microsoft PowerPoint Malformed Record Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 42.8% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-3445)
- Published
- August 9, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-3445 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1342(Third Party Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016657(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://secway.org/advisory/AD20060808.txt(Not Applicable)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/884252(Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/442592/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19341(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-220A.html(Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-048
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A348(Third Party Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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