CVE-2006-5574 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2006-5574?

CVE-2006-5574 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 9 Jan 2007. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker in Microsoft Office 2003 and the Multilingual Interface for Office 2003, Project 2003, and Visio 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted text that is not properly parsed.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5574?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Multilingual User Interface Pack, Microsoft Office Proofing Tools, Microsoft Project Multilingual User Interface Pack, Microsoft Visio.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5574?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5574 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2006-5574 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-5574 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

• CVE-2018-0798 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2015-1770 Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2006-2492 Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2018-0802 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8

All Microsoft Office vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-hv2g-hj24-vvp2.