CVE-2008-1434 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Microsoft Word in Office 2000, XP SP3, 2003 SP2/SP3, and 2007 Office System SP1 and earlier, as well as related products like Word Viewer. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting an HTML document with numerous CSS selectors, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but granting complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. While the EPSS score indicates a higher than average exploitability probability, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2000CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2003CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2003CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2004CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2004:*:mac:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2007CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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