CVE-2006-5994
HIGHEPSS 98th pctlDescription
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
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
- 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
- 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
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4866
- 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
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Start freeThis product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.