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CVE-2006-5296

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5296 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Microsoft PowerPoint 2003, where a specially crafted PowerPoint file can cause the application to crash due to improper handling of a container object. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and requires user interaction to open the malicious file. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:powerpoint:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
25.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-2523 · Oct 12, 2006
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2555 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

blogs.technet.com / msrc/archive/2006/10/12/poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
blogs.technet.com / msrc/archive/2006/11/10/follow-up-information-on-weblog-posting-about-poc-published-for-ms-office-2003-powerpoint.aspx
research.eeye.com / html/alerts/zeroday/20061012_2.html
secunia.com / advisories/22394
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/29507
exploit-db.com / exploits/2523
informationweek.com / management/showArticle.jhtml
osvdb.org / 29720
securityfocus.com / bid/20495
Exploit
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4031