CVE-2008-0116

highpriority · attend · 64EPSS 0.482 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

48.2% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

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."

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-94USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-5287Microsoft Excel - Code Execution (MS08-014)functional · exploit_db

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft excel= 2000nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft excel= 2002nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft excel= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft excel viewer= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office= 2004nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office= 2008nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office compatibility pack for word excel ppt 2007all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_compatibility_pack_for_word_excel_ppt_2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-03-11modified 2026-06-16

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references (18)

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