Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-2257
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order," aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "XHTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2258.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.352 (98.4th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.352 · newest: 0.352 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer — versions 5.01, 6, 7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2349 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/30613 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-045 (vendor-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495430/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-050/
- secunia.com/advisories/31375 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5266 (signature, vdb-entry)