CVE-2006-2492

CRITICALNVD 8.89.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-06-08), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2006-2492 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictMitigate nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 48%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but no release containing it is confirmed — find the release that contains it; until it is applied, mitigate (WAF / firewall / segmentation).

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
80
EG Risk 80/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity88% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
48%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.8 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.8 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
48% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation on your normal schedule at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

No released fix is confirmed on this page, but CISA's timeline does not wait for a fix's release: this CVE is in CISA's KEV catalog, and CISA's required action for it, quoted below, applies whether or not a fix is released.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2492

Published

May 20, 2006

Last Modified

April 16, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Fix referenced — no release confirmed yet. Sources: cert.
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18037
Web page

Flashpoint | Threat Intelligence With Industry-Best Data

http://www.osvdb.org/25635
CERT

VU#446012 - Microsoft Word object pointer memory corruption vulnerability

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/446012
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/20153
Web page

SANS.edu Internet Storm Center - SANS Internet Storm Center

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1346
Web page

SANS.edu Internet Storm Center - SANS Internet Storm Center

http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1345

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 124× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,015 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 915 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 07:01 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 07:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  3. 2026-11-01 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  4. 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  6. 2026-10-31 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  7. 2026-10-31 07:10 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-31 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  9. 2026-10-30 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  10. 2026-10-30 07:12 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-30 07:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  12. 2026-10-29 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  13. 2026-10-29 07:17 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-29 07:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  15. 2026-10-28 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  16. 2026-10-28 07:23 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-28 07:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  18. 2026-10-27 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  19. 2026-10-27 07:30 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-27 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  21. 2026-10-26 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  22. 2026-10-26 07:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  23. 2026-10-25 20:42 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-25 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-25 07:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  2. 2026-10-24 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  3. 2026-10-24 07:48 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-24 07:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  5. 2026-10-23 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  6. 2026-10-23 07:52 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-23 07:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  8. 2026-10-22 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  9. 2026-10-22 07:56 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-22 07:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  11. 2026-10-21 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  12. 2026-10-21 08:01 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-21 08:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  14. 2026-10-20 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  15. 2026-10-20 08:07 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-20 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  17. 2026-10-19 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  18. 2026-10-19 08:11 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-19 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  20. 2026-10-18 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  21. 2026-10-18 08:15 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-18 08:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  23. 2026-10-17 08:20 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-17 08:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  25. 2026-10-16 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  26. 2026-10-16 08:25 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-16 08:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  28. 2026-10-15 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  29. 2026-10-15 08:30 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-15 08:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  31. 2026-10-14 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
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  33. 2026-10-14 08:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  34. 2026-10-13 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  35. 2026-10-13 08:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  36. 2026-10-12 22:05 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-12 08:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  38. 2026-10-12 04:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  39. 2026-10-12 00:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  41. 2026-10-11 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  43. 2026-10-11 15:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  44. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  45. 2026-10-11 11:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  46. 2026-10-11 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  47. 2026-10-11 02:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  49. 2026-10-10 22:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  50. 2026-10-10 19:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  51. 2026-10-10 17:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  52. 2026-10-10 13:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  53. 2026-10-10 09:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  54. 2026-10-10 04:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  55. 2026-10-10 00:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  56. 2026-10-09 20:19 UTCEG score recompute
  57. 2026-10-09 20:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  58. 2026-10-09 19:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  59. 2026-10-09 16:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  60. 2026-10-09 11:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  61. 2026-10-09 07:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  62. 2026-10-09 03:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  63. 2026-10-08 22:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  65. 2026-10-08 18:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  66. 2026-10-08 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  67. 2026-10-08 14:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  68. 2026-10-08 09:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  69. 2026-10-08 05:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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  71. 2026-10-08 01:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
  72. 2026-10-07 23:36 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 48% · 98th percentile
  73. 2026-10-07 20:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-pvcc-qqxr-p978 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.8
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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2006-2492?
CVE-2006-2492 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on May 20, 2006. Buffer overflow in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 SP3, Office XP SP3, Office 2003 Sp1 and SP2, and Microsoft Works Suites through 2006, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed object pointer, as originally reported by ISC on 20060519 for a zero-day attack.
When was CVE-2006-2492 made public?
CVE-2006-2492 was made public on May 19, 2006: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, CERT/CC, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on May 20, 2006. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 16, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2006-2492 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2006-2492 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 8, 2022, affecting Microsoft Word. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is referenced, but no release containing it is confirmed. Check the referenced fix and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains it; until one is applied, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2006-2492?
CVE-2006-2492 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2006-2492?
CVE-2006-2492 affects Microsoft Word.
How do I remediate CVE-2006-2492?
A fix for CVE-2006-2492 is referenced (a reference tagged "Patch", often a source commit), but EchelonGraph has no release containing it on record. Check that reference and the vendor's advisory for a release that contains the fix and update to it; until then, restrict network exposure of the affected system or apply the vendor's mitigation.

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