CVE-2006-3435

PowerPoint in Microsoft Office 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 for Mac, and v.X for Mac does not properly parse the slide notes field in a document, which allows remote user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted data in this field, which triggers an erroneous object pointer calculation that uses data from within the document. NOTE: this issue is different than other PowerPoint vulnerabilities including CVE-2006-4694.

Published: 2006-10-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-3435 is rated High Risk (66.4/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 46.60%, 98th percentile). EPSS ranks this CVE among the most likely to be exploited in the near term. High exploitation likelihood—assess exposure and prioritize remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-3435

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-09-05 55.16% 46.60% -8.56%
2 2025-05-29 54.78% 55.16% +0.38%
3 2025-03-17 — 54.78% —

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-3435

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
 8.6 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-3435

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-3435

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-3435: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-3435

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-3435

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
microsoft office 2000 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2000 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2000 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2000 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2003 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2003 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2003 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2003 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office 2004 cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office v.x cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:v.x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office xp cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office xp cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office xp cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office xp cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-3435

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