CVE-2008-4030

highpriority · attend · 45EPSS 0.234 · 98 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

23.4% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Outlook 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; and Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted control words in (1) an RTF file or (2) a rich text e-mail message, which triggers incorrect memory allocation and memory corruption, aka "Word RTF Object Parsing Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-4028.

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

v2.07.9highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office outlook= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_outlook:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office word= 2000nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office word= 2002nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office word= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office word= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft office word viewer= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_word_viewer:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft open xml file format converterall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:open_xml_file_format_converter:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft works= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2008-12-10modified 2026-06-16

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references (10)

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