Vulnerability in Microsoft 20007 Office System
CVE-2008-4265
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed object, which triggers memory corruption during the loading of records from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."
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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: 0.246 (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: 0.246 · newest: 0.246 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft 20007 Office System — versions sp1
- Microsoft Office — versions 2000, 2003, xp
- Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007
- Microsoft Office Excel — versions 2000, 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Office Excel Viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074 (vendor-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5614 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386 (vdb-entry)
- labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)