CVE-2008-3021 is a critical vulnerability affecting Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, 2003 SP2, Office Converter Pack, and Works 8. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious PICT file with an invalid bits_per_pixel field, leading to improper length parsing. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it does require user interaction (medium attack complexity). Despite its age and high FAUCET risk score of 98/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
xpCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_converter_pack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:works:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.