Vulnerability in Microsoft Antigen For Exchange
CVE-2008-1438
Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (mpengine.dll) 1.1.3520.0 and 0.1.13.192, as used in multiple Microsoft products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (disk space exhaustion) via a file with "crafted data structures" that trigger the creation of large temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1437.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.129 (96.3th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 96.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.129 · newest: 0.129 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Antigen For Exchange
- Microsoft Antigen For Smtp Gateway
- Microsoft Diagnostics And Recovery Toolkit — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Forefront Client Security
- Microsoft Forefront Security For Exchange Server
- Microsoft Forefront Security For Sharepoint
- Microsoft Malware Protection Engine — versions 0.1.13.192, 1.1.3520.0
- Microsoft Windows Defender
- Microsoft Windows Live Onecare
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/30172 (Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/29073 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14375 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1506/references (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-029 (vendor-advisory)