Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-5574 - Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Microsoft Office Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker

047910
CVSS 9.3 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
MEDIUM
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
COMPLETE
Integrity impact
COMPLETE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
network
microsoft
critical

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in the Brazilian Portuguese Grammar Checker in Microsoft Office 2003 and the Multilingual Interface for Office 2003, Project 2003, and Visio 2003 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted text that is not properly parsed. If a user were logged on with administrative user rights, an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could take complete control of an affected system.