Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Microsoft Excel Could Allow Remote Code Execution
Informations
Name KB947563 First vendor Publication 2008-01-15
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2008-03-12
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1.0

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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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

Microsoft has completed the investigation into a public report of this vulnerability. We have issued MS08-014 to address this issue. For more information about this issue, including download links for an available security update, please review MS08-014. The vulnerability addressed is the Microsoft Excel Vulnerability - CVE-2008-0081.

Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/947563.mspx

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

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
2014-01-10 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 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 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

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