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CVE-2006-5198

60
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5198 describes a critical vulnerability in the WZFILEVIEW.FileViewCtrl.61 ActiveX control within WinZip 10.0 prior to build 7245, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through unspecified "unsafe methods." This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.0, indicating a network-based attack with high complexity, leading to partial confidentiality and integrity impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit modules are publicly available in Metasploit, and its high EPSS score suggests a significant probability of exploitation, despite a lack of community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:winzip:winzip:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
4.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
60.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: WinZip FileView (WZFILEVIEW.FileViewCtrl.61) ActiveX Buffer Overflow · Nov 2, 2007
ExploitDB: EDB-16607 · Apr 30, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6020 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

isc.sans.org / diary.php
docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-067
secunia.com / advisories/22891
securitytracker.com / id
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/512804
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / archive/1/451589/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/21060
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4509
winzip.com / wz7245.htm
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-06-040.html
Vendor Advisory