CVE-2006-5994: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word 2000 and 2002, Office Word and Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 and 2004 v. X for Mac, and Works 2004, 2005, and 2006 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Word document with a malformed string that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6456.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2000 only; version 2003 only; version 2004 only; version xp only
• Microsoft Word: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only
• Microsoft Word Viewer: version 2003 only
• Microsoft Works: version 2004 only; version 2005 only; version 2006 only

Published 2006-12-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.