Information disclosure in Microsoft Internet Explorer
CVE-2008-4029
Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 and 4.0, as used in Internet Explorer, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from another domain via a crafted XML document, related to improper error checks for external DTDs, aka "MSXML DTD Cross-Domain Scripting Vulnerability."
Vulnerability class: Information Disclosure
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.267 (98.0th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 98.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.267 · newest: 0.267 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Internet Explorer
- Microsoft Windows 2000 — versions sp4
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Microsoft Windows Server 2008
- Microsoft Windows Vista — versions sp1
- Microsoft Windows Xp — versions sp3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory)
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5999 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32155 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111 (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069 (vendor-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)