CVE-2008-2244
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 32.1%EU EUVD
Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .doc file that contains malformed data, as exploited in the wild in July 2008, and as demonstrated by attachement.doc.
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-399
- EPSS score
- 32.1% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2241)
- Published
- July 9, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2241 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office word
References
- http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/07/08/vulnerability-in-microsoft-word-could-allow-remote-code-execution.aspx
- http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4696
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30975(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953635.mspx
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30124
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020447
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2028
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43663
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5897
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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