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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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 24.4%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-79
- Affected
- microsoft/office
- Source
- secure@microsoft.com
EPSS 24.4% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
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, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.