CVE-2006-3868
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP and 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed Smart Tag.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.8%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP and 2003 allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed Smart Tag.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.1 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 24.80% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- microsoft/office
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
EPSS 24.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22339
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017034
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/807780US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/29430
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20320
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A740
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22339
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017034
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/807780US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/29430
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20320
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3981
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A740
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.