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CVE-2006-0187

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CVE-2006-0187 describes a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Visual Studio 2005, where malicious code within a user-defined control's Load event can execute automatically when a user opens a specially crafted project file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.1, indicating a medium severity, and requires user interaction (high attack complexity) to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2005CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:2005:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.1MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
4.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
19.09%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-27072 · Jan 12, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1908 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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

secunia.com / advisories/18409
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/24116
securityfocus.com / archive/1/421943/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/16225
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/0151