CVE-2006-1043

Visual Interdev vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

22.4%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0 and Microsoft Visual InterDev 6.0 allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long DataProject field in a (1) Visual Studio Database Project File (.dbp) or (2) Visual Studio Solution (.sln).

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Visual Interdev

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2006-03-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 22.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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