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."
EPSS: 0.356 (98.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
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
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secure@microsoft.com (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_HP, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_MS, vendor-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (x_refsource_SECUNIA, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- secure@microsoft.com (signature, x_refsource_OVAL, vdb-entry)
- secure@microsoft.com (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)