CVE-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0081?

CVE-2008-0081 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 16 Jan 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-908

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0081?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft Office.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0081?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-0081 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2008-0081 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-0081 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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• CVE-2016-7262 Microsoft Office Security Feature Bypass Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2009-3129 Microsoft Excel Featheader Record Memory Corruption Exploited High 7.8
• CVE-2015-6040 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.3

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h6j8-g36h-j99v.