CVE-2008-1087

highpriority · attend · 67EPSS 0.566 · 99 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · functional

Likely / severe?

56.6% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Stack-based buffer overflow in GDI in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista, and Server 2008 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an EMF image file with crafted filename parameters, aka "GDI Stack Overflow 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-119USprimary

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-5442Microsoft Windows - GDI Image Parsing Stack Overflow (MS08-021)functional · exploit_db
EDB-6656Microsoft Windows - GDI (EMR_COLORMATCHTOTARGETW) (MS08-021)functional · exploit_db

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft windows 2000all versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows 2003 serverall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_2003_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows vistaall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_vista:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows xpall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows_xp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft windows-nt= 2008nvdUScpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows-nt:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2008-04-08modified 2026-06-16

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references (22)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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