# CVE-2008-7217: Security feature bypass in n/a

> Local users with ID 502 can bypass administrator restrictions to access Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac due to incorrect directory permissions.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.6 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 13 Sep 2009
- **Updated:** 16 Sep 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-h222-rpwc-wpc8

## What is CVE-2008-7217?

CVE-2008-7217 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 13 Sep 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac, when running on Macintosh systems that restrict Office access to administrators, does not enforce this restriction for user ID 502, which allows local users with that ID to bypass intended security policy and access Office programs, related to permissions and ownership for certain directories.

Weakness: CWE-264

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-7217?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Microsoft Office.

## How do I fix CVE-2008-7217?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-7217 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2008-7217 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-7217 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office

- [CVE-2018-0798](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-0798/): Microsoft Office Memory Corruption (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2015-1770](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2015-1770/): Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2006-2492](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-2492/): Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer (high 8.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2018-0802](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-0802/): Microsoft Office Memory Corruption (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)
- [CVE-2017-11882](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2017-11882/): Microsoft Office Memory Corruption (high 7.8, exploited in the wild)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2008-7217 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2008-7217 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 13 Sep 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-7217 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Microsoft Office. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7217/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-7217/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-7217
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-7217
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-7217

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