CVE-2006-5994

CriticalCVSS 9.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Dec 6, 2006
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2006-5994: Critical severity, CVSS 9.3 | Vulnix