CVE-2008-3006
HIGH severity · CVSS 9.3 · CWE-399
9.3CVSS HIGH
Summary
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack 2007 Gold and SP1; Office SharePoint Server 2007 Gold and SP1; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly parse Country record values when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Record Parsing Vulnerability."
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)36%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31454Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31455Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495428/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30640
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020672
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html