CVE-2006-5994
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 33.7%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- EPSS score
- 33.7% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5977)
- Published
- December 6, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5977 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word
- microsoft / word viewer
- microsoft / works
- microsoft / works
- microsoft / works
References
- 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/23232(Vendor 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/167928(US Government Resource)
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/929433.mspx
- http://www.osvdb.org/30824
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453735/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453906/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454061/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21451
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-044A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866(Vendor Advisory)
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2007/ms07-014
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30738
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A238
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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