Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Frontpage
CVE-2008-4253
The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 8.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.210 (97.5th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.210 · newest: 0.210 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Microsoft Office Frontpage — versions 2002
- Microsoft Project — versions 2003, 2007
- Microsoft Visual Basic — versions 6.0
- Microsoft Visual Foxpro — versions 8.0, 9.0
- Microsoft Visual Studio .Net — versions 2002, 2003
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/32592 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3382 (vdb-entry)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070 (vendor-advisory)
- support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5994 (signature, vdb-entry)