PT-2008-5337 · Microsoft · Office Xp

Published 2008-10-15 · Updated 2018-10-12 · CVE-2008-4020

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Microsoft Office XP version SP3

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a document containing a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header, accessed through a cdo: URL. This renders the content instead of raising a File Download dialog box.

Recommendations For Microsoft Office XP version SP3, consider disabling access to cdo: URLs as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict the rendering of content from documents with a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4020

Affected Products

Office Xp

References · 13

• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31693 · Patch
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4020 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969 · Note
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1021045 · Note
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html · Note