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CVE-2006-3868

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3868 is an unspecified vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office XP and 2003, allowing remote, user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code through a malformed Smart Tag. With a CVSS score of 5.1, it has a network attack vector, high access complexity, and partial impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and high FAUCET Risk Score of 96/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
xpCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
23.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2362 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-062
secunia.com / advisories/22339
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A740
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/807780
US Government Resource
osvdb.org / 29430
securityfocus.com / archive/1/449179/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/20320
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/3981