PT-2006-4518 · Microsoft · Office Word

Published 2006-10-10 · Updated 2018-10-30 · CVE-2006-3651

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

9.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Word (affected versions not specified)

Description A remote code execution issue exists in Microsoft Word, which can be exploited when the software opens a specially crafted mail merge file. This file could be sent as an email attachment or hosted on a malicious website. An attacker could exploit this issue by creating a specially crafted Word file, allowing remote code execution.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-3651

Affected Products

Office Word

References · 14

• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3651 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3651 · Security Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-060 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded · Vendor Advisory
• http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:51 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017032 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3979 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A51 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3651 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/3979 · Note
• https://docs.microsoft.com/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/MS06-060 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/921300 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/20358 · Note