CVE-2006-6753

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe) in Microsoft Windows does not properly display log data that contains '%' (percent) characters, which might make it impossible to use Event Viewer to determine the actual data that triggered an event, and might produce long strings that are not properly handled by certain processes that rely on Event Viewer.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows Event Viewer: all versions

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455044/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455071/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455077/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455079/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455087/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455044/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455071/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455077/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455079/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455087/100/0/threaded

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