CVE-2008-2244: Microsoft Office Word

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 32.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: version 2002 only

Published 2008-07-09. Last modified 2026-06-16.