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CVE-2008-4265

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
10/12/2008
Last modified:
09/04/2025

Description

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."

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_excel:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:20007_office_system:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:20007_office_system:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2008:*:mac:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007:*:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_excel_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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


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