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CVE-2008-3004
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…
High9.3EPSS 32.2%
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- microsoft
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."
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 32.2% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- 1020670 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5885 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA08-225A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- HPSBST02360 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- MS08-043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 20080812 Microsoft Excel Chart AxesSet Invalid Array Index Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 31454 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30638 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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