Coverage › CVE-2006-2492
CVE-2006-2492 Unmapped
Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Microsoft — Word
- Description (CISA)
- Microsoft Word and Microsoft Works Suites contain a malformed object pointer which allows attackers to execute code.
- Added to KEV
- 2022-06-08
- Due date
- 2022-06-22
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-120
- CISA notes
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2492
- Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2006-2492. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-120) — here is why — and does not guess.
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