Microsoft Office 2000/2003/Xp code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/Xp and classified as critical. This affects an unknown function. This manipulation causes code injection. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2006-2389. Moreover, an exploit is present. Applying a patch is the recommended action to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office 2000/2003/Xp (Office Suite Software). It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2003 SP1 and SP2, Office XP SP3, Office 2000 SP3, and other products, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Office file with a malformed property that triggers memory corruption related to record lengths, aka "Microsoft Office Property Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-1316.

The issue has been introduced in 06/07/1999. The weakness was disclosed 07/11/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-2389 since 05/15/2006. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed in Python. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2591 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22025 (MS06-037 / MS06-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel and Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (917284 / 917285) (Mac OS X)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family MacOS X Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110035 (Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS06-038)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published before and not just after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (27609), Exploit-DB (28198), Tenable (22025), SecurityFocus (BID 18911†) and OSVDB (27149†). The entries VDB-2324, VDB-2367, VDB-29423 and VDB-31318 are pretty similar. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 22025
Nessus Name: MS06-037 / MS06-038: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel and Office Could Allow Remote Code Execution (917284 / 917285) (Mac OS X)
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-2389 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-2389
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-31237

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X-Force: 27609
SecurityFocus: 18911 - Microsoft Office Property Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 21012 - Microsoft Office String and Property Parsing Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 27149 - Microsoft Office Malformed Property Overflow Arbitrary Code Execution
SecurityTracker: 1016469
Vulnerability Center: 12232 - [MS06-038] Microsoft Office Memory Corruption via Malformed Property, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-2756

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/12/2015 14:25
Updated: 01/05/2025 03:29
Changes: 03/12/2015 14:25 (88), 06/22/2019 10:16 (2), 01/05/2025 03:29 (17)
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