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CVE-2008-40331 exploit

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 through 6.0, as used in Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Internet Explorer,…

Published 17 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
4.3
v2.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
27.7%
percentile 98%
Public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 through 6.0, as used in Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Internet Explorer, and other products, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from another domain and corrupt the session state via HTTP request header fields, as demonstrated by the Transfer-Encoding field, aka "MSXML Header Request Vulnerability."

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

27.75% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

  • EDB-7196 Microsoft XML Core Services DTD - Cross-Domain Scripting (MS08-069) · remote · 2008-11-23

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD2.04.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

  • marc.info /?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_HP, x_transferred
  • oval.cisecurity.org /repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5847 · vdb-entry, signature, x_refsource_OVAL, x_transferred
  • us-cert.gov /cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html · third-party-advisory, x_refsource_CERT, x_transferred
  • vupen.com /english/advisories/2008/3111 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, x_transferred
  • docs.microsoft.com /en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069 · vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MS, x_transferred
  • securitytracker.com /id?1021164 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
  • securityfocus.com /bid/32204 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

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