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CVE-2006-5157
Format string vulnerability in the ActiveX control (ATXCONSOLE.OCX) in TrendMicro OfficeScan Corporate Edition (OSCE) before 7.3 Patch 1…
- 5.1MediumCVSS base score
- 6.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Format string vulnerability in the ActiveX control (ATXCONSOLE.OCX) in TrendMicro OfficeScan Corporate Edition (OSCE) before 7.3 Patch 1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string identifiers in the "Management Console's Remote Client Install name search".
Timeline
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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 | Medium5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.7% · top 6.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://www.layereddefense.com/TREND01OCT.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3870 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- officescan-atxconsole-format-string(29308) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1016963 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#788860 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 20284 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20061001 Layered Defense Advisory: TrendMicro OfficesScan Corporate Edition Format String Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1682 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 22224 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2006-5142 (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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