Executive Summary

Informations
Name CVE-2008-0081 First vendor Publication 2008-01-16
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-02-08

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Overall CVSS Score 9.8
Base Score 9.8 Environmental Score 9.8
impact SubScore 5.9 Temporal Score 9.8
Exploitabality Sub Score 3.9
 
Attack Vector Network Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High Availability Impact High
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 9.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted macros, aka "Macro Validation Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3490.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0081

CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification

Id Name
CAPEC-26 Leveraging Race Conditions
CAPEC-29 Leveraging Time-of-Check and Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) Race Conditions
CAPEC-172 Time and State Attacks

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5546
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5546
Title: Macro Validation Vulnerability
Description: Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted macros, aka "Macro Validation Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-3490.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-0081
 Version: 8
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Microsoft Windows Vista
 Product(s): Microsoft Excel 2000
Microsoft Excel 2002
Microsoft Excel 2003
Microsoft Excel Viewer 2003
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 3
Application 1
Application 1

SAINT Exploits

Description Link
Microsoft Excel rtAFDesc record invalid pointer access More info here

ExploitDB Exploits

id Description
2008-03-21 Microsoft Office Excel Code Execution Exploit (MS08-014)

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
42732 Microsoft Excel Macro Validation Unspecified Code Execution

Excel contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code. The issue is triggered when Excel fails to validate specially-crafted macros. It is possible that the flaw may allow arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.
40344 Microsoft Excel Malformed Header File Handling Remote Code Execution

An unspecified memory corruption flaw exists in Excel. With a specially crafted file, a context-dependent attacker can cause arbitrary code execution resulting in a loss of integrity.

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-11-19 Microsoft Office Excel style record overflow attempt
RuleID : 32206 - Revision : 2 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft SYmbolic LinK file magic detected
RuleID : 23701 - Revision : 12 - Type : FILE-IDENTIFY
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 23459 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 23458 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 23457 - Revision : 3 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel style record overflow attempt
RuleID : 22052 - Revision : 8 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 21158 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 21157 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 21156 - Revision : 6 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel File Importing Code Execution
RuleID : 20062 - Revision : 13 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel malformed formula parsing code execution attempt
RuleID : 17655 - Revision : 15 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft SYmbolic LinK file magic detected
RuleID : 13585 - Revision : 21 - Type : FILE-IDENTIFY
2014-01-10 CSV file download request
RuleID : 13584 - Revision : 21 - Type : FILE-IDENTIFY
2014-01-10 Microsoft SYmbolic LinK file download request
RuleID : 13583 - Revision : 24 - Type : FILE-IDENTIFY
2014-01-10 Microsoft Excel sst record arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 13582 - Revision : 15 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel dval record arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 13571 - Revision : 24 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel cf record arbitrary code excecution attempt
RuleID : 13570 - Revision : 21 - Type : FILE-OFFICE
2014-01-10 Microsoft Office Excel macro validation arbitrary code execution attempt
RuleID : 13569 - Revision : 15 - Type : FILE-OFFICE

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2010-10-20 Name : An application installed on the remote Mac OS X host is affected by multiple ...
File : macosx_ms_office_mar2008.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-03-11 Name : Arbitrary code can be executed on the remote host through Microsoft Excel.
File : smb_nt_ms08-014.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

Source Url
BID http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27305
CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html
HP http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
MS https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08...
MSKB http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/947563.mspx
OVAL https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
SECTRACK http://securitytracker.com/id?1019200
SECUNIA http://secunia.com/advisories/28506
VUPEN http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0146
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0846/references
XF https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/39699

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