RCE in Microsoft Excel Viewer
CVE-2008-0113
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: RCE (Remote Code Execution)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.422 (98.7th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.422 · newest: 0.422 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel Viewer — versions 2003
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/29321 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016 (vendor-advisory)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5421 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)