CVE-2008-0113
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 42.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an Excel document with malformed cell comments that trigger memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office Cell Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Microsoft Office XP SP3 - '.PPT' File Buffer Overflow (MS08-016) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5320local, windowspublished 30 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
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 42.2% · top 1.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-008 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- TA08-071A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 29321 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MS08-016 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- SSRT080028 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5421 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 20080311 ZDI-08-008: Microsoft Excel BIFF File Format Cell Record Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0848 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1019578 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2008-0126 (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-2008-0113)Record last updated .