Vulnerability in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-3006
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack 2007 Gold and SP1; Office SharePoint Server 2007 Gold and SP1; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly parse Country record values when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Record Parsing Vulnerability."
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: 0.356 (98.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.356 · newest: 0.356 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack — versions 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel Viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Sharepoint Server — versions 2007
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30640 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495428/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-043 (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31455 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/31454 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5561 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)