CVE-2008-4030

critical Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
9.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EPSS Score
59.9%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 2% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
C
Integrity
C
Availability
C
Published: December 10, 2008 (6364 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

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; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words 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," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4028.

CWE

CWE-399

Affected Products

microsoft officemicrosoft office compatibility pack for word excel ppt 2007microsoft office word viewermicrosoft open xml file format convertermicrosoft worksmicrosoft office outlookmicrosoft office word

References

🔗 www.securitytracker.com 🔗 www.us-cert.gov 🔗 www.vupen.com 🔗 docs.microsoft.com 🔗 oval.cisecurity.org