CVE-2006-3590: Microsoft PowerPoint

Medium severity, CVSS 5.1. EPSS: 14.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mso.dll, as used by Microsoft PowerPoint 2000 through 2003, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a malformed shape container in a PPT file that leads to memory corruption, as exploited by Trojan.PPDropper.B, a different issue than CVE-2006-1540 and CVE-2006-3493.

Affected products

• Microsoft PowerPoint: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only

Published 2006-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.