THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-3649
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-3649

Visual Basic vulnerability

CVSS
5.1
EPSS
10.2%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) SDK 6.0 through 6.4, as used by Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Project 2000 SR1, Project 2002 SP1, Access 2000 Runtime SP3, Visio 2002 SP2, and Works Suite 2004 through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified document properties that are not verified when VBA is invoked to open documents.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Visual Basic
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-08-09

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 10.2% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-3649

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Visual Basic is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-3649.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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