Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer

CVE-2008-4258

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4 and 6 SP1 does not properly validate parameters during calls to navigation methods, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document that triggers memory corruption, aka "Parameter Validation Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

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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: 0.178 (97.1th percentile), scored .

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-4258: held from 0.178 to 0.178.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.178 · newest: 0.178 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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