THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4031
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4031

Office vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
23.4%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed string in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Office
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-12-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 23.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4031

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Office is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4031.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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