CVE-2006-6753
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.1EPSS 1.7%EU EUVD
Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) in Microsoft Windows does not properly display log data that contains '%' (percent) characters, which might make it impossible to use Event Viewer to determine the actual data that triggered an event, and might produce long strings that are not properly handled by certain processes that rely on Event Viewer.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 1.7% (77th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6736)
- Published
- December 27, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6736 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows event viewer
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455044/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455071/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455077/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455079/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455087/100/0/threaded
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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