CVE-2006-6456

highpriority · attend · 48EPSS 0.322 · 98 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

32.2% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and 2003 and Word Viewer 2003 allows remote attackers to execute code via unspecified vectors related to malformed data structures that trigger memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5994.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USLLM-inferredCWE-20USLLM-inferred

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft office= 2000nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office= 2004nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office= xpnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft word= 2000nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft word= 2002nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft word= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft word viewer= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:word_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft works= 2004nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft works= 2005nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft works= 2006nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-12-11modified 2026-06-16

references (42)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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