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CVE-2008-4028

HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 38.1%EU EUVD

Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words related to multiple Drawing Object tags in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4030.

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-119
EPSS score
38.1% (99th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2008-4013)
Published
December 10, 2008
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4013 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • 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 / office outlook
  • microsoft / office outlook
  • microsoft / office system
  • microsoft / office system
  • microsoft / office word
  • microsoft / office word
  • microsoft / office word
  • microsoft / office word
  • microsoft / office word viewer
  • microsoft / office word viewer
  • microsoft / open xml file format converter
  • microsoft / works

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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