CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3004
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
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."
Affected configurations
• microsoft office 2000
• microsoft office 2003
• microsoft office xp
• microsoft office excel viewer 2003
• microsoft office 2004
• microsoft office 2008
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=740 labs.idefense.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31454 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30638 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020670 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-043 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5885 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=740 labs.idefense.com
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31454 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30638 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020670 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347 Vendor Advisory
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-043 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5885 oval.cisecurity.org