CVE-2008-4020

Microsoft Office XP SP3 - Cross-Site Scripting via Content-Disposition Header

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_vupen
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807
Patch, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/32138
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546
Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_jvndb
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry signature x_refsource_oval
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_jvn
http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021045
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693
US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html

Scores

EPSS 0.2439
EPSS Percentile 97.7%

Details

CWE
CWE-79
Status published
Products (1)
microsoft/office xp sp3
Published Oct 15, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026