CVE-2008-0118
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 34.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Excel Viewer 2003 up to SP3, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Office document that triggers memory corruption from an "allocation error," aka "Microsoft Office 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 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB2 entries
- 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
- Microsoft Office 2000/2003/2004/XP - File Memory Corruption (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31361dos, windowspublished 7 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)
- 34.8% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (9 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
8
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5190 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 28146 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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
- 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-2008-0131 (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-2008-0118)Record last updated .