CVE-2008-4026: Microsoft Office

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 23.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Microsoft Office Word 2000 SP3, 2002 SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 Gold and SP1; Word Viewer 2003 Gold and SP3; Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint 2007 File Formats Gold and SP1; Office 2004 and 2008 for Mac; and Open XML File Format Converter for Mac allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted Word document that contains a malformed value, which triggers memory corruption, aka "Word Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: version 2004 only; version 2008 only
• Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack For Word Excel Ppt 2007: any version
• Microsoft Office Outlook: version 2007 only
• Microsoft Office Word: version 2000 only; version 2002 only; version 2003 only; version 2007 only
• Microsoft Office Word Viewer: version 2003 only
• Microsoft Open XML File Format Converter: any version
• Microsoft Works: version 8.0 only

Published 2008-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.