Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3890

Title: Winzip RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-3890

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Nov 21, 2006
Modified Date Apr 23, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
14.46%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3890: Stack-based buffer overflow in the Sky Software FileView ActiveX control, as used in WinZip 10 before build 7245 and in certain other applications, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long FilePattern attribute in a WZFILEVIEW object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5198.

Impacted Vendors

W
winzip 1
S
sky_software 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/22891 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/225217 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451566/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21060 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21108 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-067 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2785 http://secunia.com/advisories/22891 http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/225217 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451566/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21060 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21108 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2006/ms06-067 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2785
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
9.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3890 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3420
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.