CVE-2008-4265

CriticalCVSS 9.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel spreadsheet that contains a malformed object, which triggers memory corruption during the loading of records from this spreadsheet, aka "File Format Parsing Vulnerability."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 9.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

Timeline

Published: Dec 10, 2008
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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