CVE-2006-3435
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document,…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 37.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in this field, which triggers an erroneous object pointer calculation that uses data from within the document. NOTE: this issue is different than other PowerPoint vulnerabilities including CVE-2006-4694.
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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)
- 37.3% · top 1.5% of all CVEs (10 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
10
- VU#187028 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- SSRT061264 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-032.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 29446 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:476 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20061010 ZDI-06-032: Microsoft Office PowerPoint Malformed Slide Notes Rebuilding Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20304 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3977 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS06-058 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 1017030 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2006-3431 (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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