A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office (Office Suite Software) (the affected version unknown) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality.

The weakness was shared 04/24/2006 by Inge Henriksen as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-2055. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Technical details are unknown but an exploit is available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/30/2022). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

After even before and not, there has been an exploit disclosed. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26118), OSVDB (25003†) and Secunia (SA19819†).

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• Office Suite Software

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• Microsoft

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• Office

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• commercial

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