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CVE-2006-2492
CWE-120
Critical
97.3
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
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.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 8.8
- High · v3.1
- EPSS
- 48.10%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Jun 2022
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-120
- Published
- 20 May 2006
- Last modified 16 Apr 2026
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time