Vulnerability in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-4030
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4028.
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: 0.234 (97.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.234 · newest: 0.234 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008, 2000
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007
- Microsoft Office Outlook — versions 2007
- Microsoft Office System — versions sp1
- Microsoft Office Word — versions 2000, 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Office Word Viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
- Microsoft Works — versions 8.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-072 (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5737 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3384 (vdb-entry)