CVE-2008-2244

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Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .doc file that contains malformed

Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .doc file that contains malformed data, as exploited in the wild in July 2008, and as demonstrated by attachement.doc.

HIGH · CVSS 9.3 EPSS 0.59834

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EPSS ≥ 0.50 - high probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
CVSS base score ≥ 7.0

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Affected Products & Versions

microsoft office wordall versions

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9.3

HIGH · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secure@microsoft.com

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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.

v2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published to NVD09 Jul 2008 · 10:41 PM

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References & Sources

Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/07/08/vulnerability-in-microsoft-word-could-allow-remote-code-execution.aspx

http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4696

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2

http://secunia.com/advisories/30975Vendor Advisory

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953635.mspx

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30124

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http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020447

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.htmlUS Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2028

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43663

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5897

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