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CVE-2008-4266

36
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4266 is an array index vulnerability in Microsoft Office Excel, Excel Viewer, Office for Mac, and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting an Excel spreadsheet with a malformed NAME record, leading to stack corruption. This vulnerability is highly severe with a CVSS score of 9.3, indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity that can result in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2000CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2000:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel_viewer:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
27.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2758 is in the 92nd percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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.

Media 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-074
secunia.com / secunia_research/2008-36
Vendor Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5808
securityfocus.com / archive/1/499055/100/0/threaded
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3386
Vendor Advisory