CVE-2008-0116 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-0116?

CVE-2008-0116 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, published on 11 Mar 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 through 2003 SP2, Viewer 2003, Compatibility Pack, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed tags in rich text, aka "Excel Rich Text Validation Vulnerability."

Weakness: CWE-94, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-0116?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word Excel Ppt 2007.

How do I fix CVE-2008-0116?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-0116 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-2008-0116 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-0116 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-2008-0081 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-9w5m-5829-xj6c.