Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac allows remote attackers to…

Description

Array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP3, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel file with a crafted array index for a FORMAT record, aka the "Excel Index Array Vulnerability."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

31.9% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• TA08-225A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
• 20080812 Microsoft Excel FORMAT Record Invalid Array Index Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5837 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
• HPSBST02360 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
• MS08-043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• 1020671 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 30639 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 31454 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 09:21 UTC.