HIGH
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Published Mar 11, 2008
9.3
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 42.23%
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected products
No data.
- 2003
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
9.3 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
42.23% 0.42225
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.42225
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (21 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 42.23% (0.42225) | 98.66th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 42.23% (0.42225) | 98.52th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 66.58% (0.66581) | 98.41th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 73.38% (0.73381) | 98.42th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 65.84% (0.65841) | 98.36th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jan 13, 2025 | 88.48% (0.88484) | 98.96th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 87.09% (0.87087) | 98.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 6, 2024 | 74.04% (0.74042) | 98.23th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 29, 2024 | 71.37% (0.71372) | 98.13th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 13, 2024 | 74.15% (0.74151) | 98.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 10, 2024 | 73.06% (0.73063) | 97.99th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 1, 2023 | 70.99% (0.70986) | 97.73th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 26, 2023 | 77.67% (0.77669) | 97.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 20, 2023 | 74.88% (0.74884) | 97.76th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 15, 2023 | 77.67% (0.77669) | 97.80th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 9, 2023 | 80.57% (0.80573) | 97.86th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 5, 2023 | 79.10% (0.79100) | 97.77th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 1, 2023 | 78.43% (0.78429) | 97.72th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 77.54% (0.77540) | 97.62th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 46.72% (0.46718) | 98.56th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 46.72% (0.46718) | 98.03th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (9)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29321 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008 x_refsource_MISC
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5421 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/29321 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489415/100/0/threaded | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019578 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0848/references | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008 | x_refsource_MISC | |
| https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-016 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5421 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published Mar 11, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 7, 2008
Link CVE-2008-0113
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a