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…
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Description
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."
- CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- EPSS
- 24.39% probability · 98th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- microsoft/office
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32138Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021045
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.htmlUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32138Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693Patch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021045
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.htmlUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.