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CVE-2008-0119
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 SP1 and earlier allows remote…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 30.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Publisher in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Publisher file with crafted object header data that triggers memory corruption, aka "Publisher Object Handler Validation Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 4 months later
· 4 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)
- 30.9% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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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
- 1020015 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1505 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MS08-027 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 30150 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SSRT080071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- TA08-134A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 29158 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20080514 Microsoft Office Publisher PUB File Parsing Remote Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5303 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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-2008-0132 (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-2008-0119)Record last updated .