CVE-2006-2198
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.6
HIGH
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
3.5%
88.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-264
Published 2006-06-30 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
OpenOffice.org (aka StarOffice) 1.1.x up to 1.1.5 and 2.0.x before 2.0.3 allows user-assisted attackers to conduct unauthorized activities via an OpenOffice document with a malicious BASIC macro, which is executed without prompting the user.
Affected
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2343
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20867
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20893
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20910
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20911
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20913
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20975
- http://secunia.com/advisories/20995
- http://secunia.com/advisories/21278
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22129
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23620
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200607-12.xml
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1016414
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102490-1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1104
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/170113
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:118
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_40_openoffice.html
- http://www.openoffice.org/security/CVE-2006-2199.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0573.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/447035/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18738
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-313-1
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-313-2
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2607
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2621
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27564
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-475
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11082
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2343