CVE-2008-1091
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 40.5%EU EUVD
Unspecified 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 a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file with a malformed string that triggers a "memory calculation error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 40.5% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1102)
- Published
- May 13, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1102 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office compatibility pack for word excel ppt 2007
- microsoft / office compatibility pack for word excel ppt 2007
- microsoft / word viewer
- microsoft / word viewer
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30143(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/543907(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492020/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29104
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020013
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1504/references
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-023
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-026
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5494
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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