CVE-2006-2389

HIGHCVSS v2 · 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreLOW confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS v2 base score.

This CVE was only ever scored under CVSS v2.0. NVD CVSS v2.0 base 9.3 — NVD rates that HIGH (NVD's v2 bands: LOW 0.0–3.9 / MEDIUM 4.0–6.9 / HIGH 7.0–10.0; no CRITICAL band). Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. CVSS v2 is an older, coarser metric than v3.1/v4.0 (no Scope, no User Interaction, no Attack Requirements), so it is not directly comparable to a v3 or v4 score. NVD has never re-scored this record under v3. EPSS predicts 39% exploitation probability in the next 30 days; it does not lift the v2 base. EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized) sets EG Risk's exploitation input, not EPSS. Confidence: LOW.

Triggered by: NVD CVSS v2.0 (legacy fallback)
Sources: NVD CVSS v2.0
Trending — 3 sources updated this weekWeaponized
9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan mitigationRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit code is available (Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 39%CVSS v2: 9.3Exploit: Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2006 — if the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if not, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

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.

CVSS v2.0 (legacy)
9.3HIGHNVD never assigned a CVSS v3 rating to this CVE
EG Score
9.3HIGHlow confidence
EG Risk
68
EG Risk 68/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2006. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.
EPSS PROB
39%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.3 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v2.0 · CVSS v2.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EG Likelihood
39% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-23). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2006. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 11, 2006

Last Modified

September 23, 2026

References (10)

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 20× in last 7d / 39× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 90 of 109 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 10 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 19 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-24 04:03 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-24 04:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  3. 2026-10-23 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  4. 2026-10-23 04:21 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-23 04:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  6. 2026-10-22 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  7. 2026-10-22 04:44 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-22 04:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  9. 2026-10-21 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  10. 2026-10-21 05:04 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-21 05:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  12. 2026-10-20 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  13. 2026-10-20 05:27 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-20 05:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  15. 2026-10-19 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  16. 2026-10-19 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-19 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  18. 2026-10-18 06:08 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-18 06:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  20. 2026-10-17 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  21. 2026-10-17 06:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  22. 2026-10-16 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  23. 2026-10-16 06:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  24. 2026-10-15 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  25. 2026-10-15 05:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
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  1. 2026-10-14 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  2. 2026-10-14 01:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  3. 2026-10-13 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
  4. 2026-10-12 21:22 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-12 21:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  6. 2026-10-12 02:14 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  16. 2026-09-23 13:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mc3v-59x4-8r59 · GitHub severity HIGH
  17. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  27. 2026-07-26 13:29 UTCEG score recomputeAssessed again: 9.3 HIGH
  28. 2026-07-24 14:11 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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  30. 2026-07-23 00:30 UTCEG score recompute▼ 1.40
  31. 2026-07-22 23:54 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 1.4 LOW
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  33. 2026-07-20 17:02 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 39% · 98th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(1 reference)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Exploit-DB entry). No fix has been recorded since the CVE record was published in 2006. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system or retire the product.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-28198✓ verified
    Published Jul 11, 2006

    Microsoft Office 2000/2002 - Property Code Execution

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2006-2389?
CVE-2006-2389 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 11, 2006. 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…
When was CVE-2006-2389 made public?
CVE-2006-2389 was made public on July 11, 2006: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Microsoft Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on July 11, 2006. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 23, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2006-2389 actively exploited?
CVE-2006-2389 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 39% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
How do I remediate CVE-2006-2389?
No fix for CVE-2006-2389 has been recorded since its CVE record was published in 2006. If the vendor still supports the product, apply the fixed version it names; if it no longer does, isolate the affected system (restrict network access to it, for example with a firewall, or keep it off the internet) or retire the product.

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