RCE in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-1091
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file with a malformed string that triggers a "memory calculation error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Object Parsing 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: 0.405 (98.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.405 · newest: 0.405 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, 2004
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007
- Microsoft Word Viewer — versions 2003
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492020/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-026 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29104 (vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/543907 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1504/references (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5494 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/30143 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)