CVE-2008-0081
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 57.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted macros, aka "Macro Validation Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3490.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Excel - Code Execution (MS08-014) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5287local, windowspublished 21 Mar 2008Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 13 days later
· 13 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 57.9% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- 1019200 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5546 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- microsoft-excel-unspecified-code-execution(39699) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- TA08-071A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 947563 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSKBx_transferred
- 27305 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS08-014 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- SSRT080028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0146 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0846 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 28506 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-0094 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-0081)Record last updated .