HIGH
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document with a large number of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) selectors, related to a "memory handling error" that triggers memory corruption
Published May 13, 2008
9.3
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 30.87%
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an HTML document with a large number of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) selectors, related to a "memory handling error" that triggers memory corruption.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- 2000
- 2003
- 2003
- 2004
- 2007
- 2007_sp1
- 2008
- xp
- n/a
- n/a
- 2003
- 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.
30.87% 0.30869
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.30869
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 (19 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 30.87% (0.30869) | 98.20th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 30.87% (0.30869) | 98.01th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Aug 20, 2025 | 54.91% (0.54907) | 97.95th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 60.48% (0.60485) | 98.12th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 70.01% (0.70011) | 98.19th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 60.48% (0.60485) | 98.09th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 31, 2024 | 90.64% (0.90645) | 99.10th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 86.36% (0.86360) | 98.83th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 23, 2024 | 80.06% (0.80059) | 98.42th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 9, 2024 | 75.28% (0.75280) | 98.06th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 2, 2024 | 79.87% (0.79868) | 98.05th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 28, 2023 | 88.40% (0.88401) | 98.42th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 22, 2023 | 90.25% (0.90249) | 98.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 17, 2023 | 91.81% (0.91807) | 98.59th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 10, 2023 | 92.03% (0.92033) | 98.56th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 20, 2023 | 93.20% (0.93199) | 98.53th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 93.73% (0.93734) | 98.55th | 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://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=700 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30143 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29105 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020014 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1504/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-026 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5012 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=700 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE | |
| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP | |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/30143 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29105 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020014 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1504/references | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory | |
| https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-026 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5012 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner microsoft
Published May 13, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Mar 21, 2008
Link CVE-2008-1434
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a