CVE-2006-6561

highpriority · attend · 61EPSS 0.413 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

41.3% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000, 2002, and Word Viewer 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DOC file that triggers memory corruption, as demonstrated via the 12122006-djtest.doc file, a different issue than CVE-2006-5994 and CVE-2006-6456.

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-inferred

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-2922Microsoft Word Document - Malformed Pointer (PoC)functional · exploit_db

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)

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sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2006-12-14modified 2026-06-16

references (24)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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