Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel
CVE-2008-4266
Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP3; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel spreadsheet with a NAME record that contains an invalid index value, which triggers stack corruption, aka "Excel Global Array Memory Corruption 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: 0.276 (98.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.276 · newest: 0.276 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Excel — versions 2000, 2002, 2003
- Microsoft Excel Viewer — versions 2003
- Microsoft Office — versions 2004, 2008
- Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/secunia_research/2008-36/ (Vendor Advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074 (vendor-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499055/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5808 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)