CVE-2008-4265

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 - Remote Code Execution via Malformed Spreadsheet Object

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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."

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%3A5614
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3386
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_idefense
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=763
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

Scores

EPSS 0.2465
EPSS Percentile 97.7%

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