CVE-2008-4020

Microsoft Office XP SP3 - XSS

Title source: llm

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."

References (12)

[Third Party Advisory] http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html

[Third Party Advisory] http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html

[Mailing List] http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] http://secunia.com/advisories/32138

[Patch] http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693

[US Government Resource] http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html

[Vendor Advisory] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969

[Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021045

[Third Party Advisory] http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807

Scores

EPSS 0.3130

EPSS Percentile 96.7%

Classification

CWE

CWE-79

Status published

Affected Products (2)

microsoft/office

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Oct 15, 2008

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026