THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-5296
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2006-5296

Powerpoint vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
25.5%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2003 does not properly handle a container object whose position value exceeds the record length, which allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a crafted PowerPoint (.PPT) file, as demonstrated by Nanika.ppt, and a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-3435, CVE-2006-3876, CVE-2006-3877, and CVE-2006-4694. NOTE: the impact of this issue was originally claimed to be arbitrary code execution, but later analysis demonstrated that this was erroneous.
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Powerpoint
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published
2006-10-16

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 25.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2006-5296

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Powerpoint is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-5296.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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