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CVE-2008-3006

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
12/08/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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."

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 9.30 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Medium
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
9.30
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:2003:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:2003:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_server:2007:*:gold:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:sharepoint_server:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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