CVE-2008-4020

Published Oct 15, 2008

Last updated 6 years ago

Overview

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."
Source: secure@microsoft.com
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 4.3
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-79

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office:xp:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "79BA1175-7F02-4435-AEA6-1BA8AADEB7EF"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References