Vulnerability details

CVE-2006-2492

Actively exploited
Microsoft Word
CVSS 3.1
8.8High

Official description

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
8.8High 3.1 CISA ADP / Vulnrichment (CISA-ADP) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
No product information recorded.

References and advisories

18
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Details

Published
2006-05-20
Last updated
2025-10-22
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
certcc

CISA KEV catalog

Date added
2022-06-08
Due date
2022-06-22
Used in ransomware
Unknown

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

48.1%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
98.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
Active
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-120
    Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')