CVE-2008-0117
Status: ModifiedHigh (9.3)—💥 Exploit
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Excel 2000 SP3 and 2002 SP2, and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted conditional formatting values, aka "Excel Conditional Formatting Vulnerability."
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Base score: 9.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 33%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 98
- Score date: 10/7/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
💥 Public exploits
Exploit code or detection templates are publicly available. This is not the same as confirmed active exploitation (KEV), but it raises the risk: patch with priority.
- Published on Exploit-DB · Microsoft Excel - Code Execution (MS08-014) (3/21/2008)
Affected technologies (4)
CWEs
- NVD-CWE-noinfo
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28170
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019587
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0846/references
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-014
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5508
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=120585858807305&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28170
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019587
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-071A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0846/references
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-014
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5508
Raw JSON (NVD)
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