CVE-2008-4264

Microsoft Office Excel - Remote Code Execution via Malformed Spreadsheet Formula

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed formula, which triggers "pointer corruption" during the loading of formulas from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5556
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021368
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32621

Scores

EPSS 0.2554
EPSS Percentile 97.8%

Details

CWE
CWE-399
Status published
Products (9)
microsoft/office 2004
microsoft/office 2008
microsoft/office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/office_excel 2000 sp3
microsoft/office_excel 2002 sp3
microsoft/office_excel 2003 sp3
microsoft/office_excel_viewer
microsoft/office_excel_viewer 2003 (2 CPE variants)
microsoft/open_xml_file_format_converter
Published Dec 10, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026