01 Record
CVE-2006-6561
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and Word Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOC file that triggers memory corruption, as
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and Word Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOC file that triggers memory corruption, as
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 41.26% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 98.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-12-14 18:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:33Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-12-14
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 32c5e2b345c487b9cd687d28f6222e6d892161d77e00dfa17141c3a6ccd29249
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com21589http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21589
- blogs.technet.comhttp://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2006/12/15/update-on-current-word-vulnerability-reports.aspx
- securitytracker.com1017390http://securitytracker.com/id?1017390
- www.infoworld.comhttp://www.infoworld.com/article/06/12/13/HNthirdword_1.html
- www.milw0rm.comhttp://www.milw0rm.com/sploits/12122006-djtest.doc
- www.securityfocus.com20061212 Re: Re: The newest Word flaw is due to malformed data structure handlinghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/454219/30/0/threaded
- research.eeye.comhttp://research.eeye.com/html/alerts/zeroday/20061212.html
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#996892http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/996892
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4997http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4997
- blogs.securiteam.comhttp://blogs.securiteam.com/?p=763
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comword-pointer-code-execution(30885)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30885
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:332https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A332