XSS in Microsoft Office
CVE-2008-4020
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a document that contains a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header and is accessed through a cdo: URL, which renders the content instead of raising a File Download dialog box, aka "Vulnerability in Content-Disposition Header Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.244 (97.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.244 · newest: 0.244 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office — versions xp
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/32138 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546 (vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html (third-party-advisory)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056 (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550 (vdb-entry)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5969 (signature, vdb-entry)
- jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html (third-party-advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)