CVE-2008-2244

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 32.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-07-09 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Microsoft Office Word 2002 SP3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a .doc file that contains malformed data, as exploited in the wild in July 2008, and as demonstrated by attachement.doc.

Affected products

Microsoft Office Word: 2002-sp3

References

http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/07/08/vulnerability-in-microsoft-word-could-allow-remote-code-execution.aspx
http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4696
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30975
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/953635.mspx
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30124
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020447
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2028
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43663
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5897
http://blogs.technet.com/msrc/archive/2008/07/08/vulnerability-in-microsoft-word-could-allow-remote-code-execution.aspx

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