CVE-2008-1091
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 40.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Word in Office 2000 and XP SP3, 2003 SP2 and SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Rich Text Format (.rtf) file with a malformed string that triggers a "memory calculation error" and a heap-based buffer overflow, aka "Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 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)
- 40.5% · top 1.3% 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
11
- 20080513 ZDI-08-023: Microsoft Office RTF Parsing Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- MS08-026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 29104 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- VU#543907 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1504 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5494 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 1020013 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SSRT080071 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- 30143 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- TA08-134A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-023 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2008-1102 (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-2008-1091)Record last updated .