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CVE-2008-3006
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…
High9.3EPSS 35.6%
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- microsoft
Description
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."
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)
- 35.6% · top 1.5% 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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References (11)
- TA08-225A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 30640 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- HPSBST02360 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 20080812 ZDI-08-048: Microsoft Excel COUNTRY Record Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1020672 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS08-043 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 31455 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31454 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5561 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2347 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-048/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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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