Microsoft Office Web Components 2000 code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Microsoft Office Web Components 2000 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Office Web Components. The manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2006-4695. No exploit exists. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Microsoft Office Web Components 2000 (Office Suite Software). Affected is an unknown code of the component Office Web Components. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as 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. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Unspecified vulnerability in certain COM objects in Microsoft Office Web Components 2000 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted URL, aka "Office Web Components URL Parsing Vulnerability."

The bug was discovered 03/11/2008. The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2006 by Chris Ries with VigilantMinds (Website). The advisory is available at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2006-4695 since 09/11/2006. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1059 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 2764 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 31416 (MS08-017: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (933103)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 110075 (Microsoft Office Web Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (MS08-017)).

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 2 years after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 5451.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (44727), Tenable (31416), SecurityFocus (BID 28135†), OSVDB (42711†) and Secunia (SA29328†). The entries VDB-3822, VDB-18774, VDB-18776 and VDB-18777 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 31416
Nessus Name: MS08-017: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Web Components Could Allow Remote Code Execution (933103)
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Saint ID: exploit_info/ms_office_web_components_spreadsheet
Saint Name: Microsoft Office Web Components OWC.Spreadsheet.9 ActiveX Control overflow

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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Chris Ries
Organization: VigilantMinds
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2006-4695 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4695
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-34122

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X-Force: 44727
SecurityFocus: 28135 - Microsoft Office Web Components ActiveX Control URL Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 29328 - Microsoft Office Web Components Two Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 42711 - CVE-2006-4695 - MS08-017 - Microsoft - Office - Code Execution Issue
SecurityTracker: 1019580
Vulnerability Center: 17852 - [MS08-017] Microsoft Office Web Components URL Parsing Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2008-0849

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 22:21
Updated: 01/05/2025 13:00
Changes: 03/12/2015 22:21 (96), 08/07/2019 08:04 (5), 01/05/2025 13:00 (17)
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