CVE-2008-3004

Microsoft Office Excel 2000/2002/2003, Excel Viewer 2003, Office 2004-2008 for Mac - RCE via Crafted AxesSet Record

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP2 and SP3; Office Excel Viewer 2003; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly validate index values for AxesSet records when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Indexing Validation Vulnerability."

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020670
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5885
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_idefense
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=740
Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/31454
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30638
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347

Scores

EPSS 0.3217
EPSS Percentile 98.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (6)
microsoft/office 2000 sp3
microsoft/office 2003 sp2 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office xp sp3
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_excel_viewer 2003
Published Aug 12, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026