CVE-2006-1311
The RichEdit component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and 2003 SP1; Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, and Office 2004 for Mac;…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 32.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The RichEdit component in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, and 2003 SP1; Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, and Office 2004 for Mac; and Learning Essentials for Microsoft Office 1.0, 1.1, and 1.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed OLE object in an RTF file, which triggers memory corruption.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 32.0% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- ADV-2007-0582 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31886 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1017640 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#368132 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 1017641 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 21876 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TA07-044A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- MS07-013 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- ms-richedit-code-execution(30592) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 24152 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1090 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-1315 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-1311)Record last updated .