Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-6884

Title: Winzip RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2006-6884

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 31, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.49%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-6884: Buffer overflow in the WZFILEVIEW.FileViewCtrl.61 ActiveX control (aka Sky Software "FileView" ActiveX control) for WinZip 10.0 Build 6667 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the CreateNewFolderFromName method, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5198.

Impacted Vendors

winzip 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455608/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455612/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455608/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455612/100/0/threaded

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-2006-6884 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2783

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3055

View Code

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/2785

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 23, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 31, 2006 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.