CVE-2006-4693

Office vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

22.5%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac and v.X for Mac allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted string in a Word file, a different issue than CVE-2006-3647 and CVE-2006-3651.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Office

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-10-10

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 22.5% 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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