CVE-2008-3006
Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Office Excel Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Excel Viewer; Office Compatibility Pack 2007 Gold and SP1; Office SharePoint Server 2007 Gold and SP1; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly parse Country record values when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Record 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-399
- EPSS score
- 35.6% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2996)
- Published
- August 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2996 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
- microsoft / office compatibility pack
- microsoft / office excel viewer
- microsoft / office excel viewer
- microsoft / office excel viewer
- microsoft / sharepoint server
- microsoft / sharepoint server
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31454(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31455(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495428/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30640
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020672
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2347(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-048/
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-043
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5561
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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