CVE-2006-2492

8.8

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows...

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity

Vendor: Microsoft
Product: Word
Published: May 20, 2006
EPSS: —

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.

cisa

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 8.8 High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0 7.6

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-06-08 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Jun 08, 2022

Vulnerability detail