CVE-2006-6561: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 41.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

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 2006-12-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.