CVE-2008-3004: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 32.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office Excel 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, and 2003 SP2 and SP3; Office Excel Viewer 2003; and Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac do not properly validate index values for AxesSet records when loading Excel files, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Excel file, aka the "Excel Indexing Validation Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2000 only; version 2003 only; version xp only; version 2004 only; version 2008 only
• Microsoft Office Excel Viewer: version 2003 only

Published 2008-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.