CVE-2008-0118
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document that triggers memory corruption…
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 34.8%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document that triggers memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
- CVSS 2.0
- 9.3 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 34.84% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- 2 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 7 March 2008
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- Affected
- microsoft/office
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
EPSS 34.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (2)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29321Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28146Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.htmlPatch, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5190
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29321Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28146Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.htmlPatch, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5190
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.