Executive Summary

Summary
Title Vulnerability in Windows Messenger Could Allow Information Disclosure (955702)
Informations
Name MS08-050 First vendor Publication 2008-08-12
Vendor Microsoft Last vendor Modification 2008-08-12
Severity (Vendor) Important Revision 1.0

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Revision Note: Bulletin published.Summary: This security update resolves a publicly reported vulnerability in supported versions of Windows Messenger. As a result of this vulnerability, scripting of an ActiveX control could allow information disclosure in the context of the logged-on user. An attacker could change state, get contact information, and initiate audio and video chat sessions without the knowledge of the logged-on user. An attacker could also capture the user?s logon ID and remotely log on to the user?s Messenger client impersonating that user.

Original Source

Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-050.mspx

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-200 Information Exposure

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5995
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5995
Title: Windows Messenger Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Description: An ActiveX control (Messenger.UIAutomation.1) in Windows Messenger 4.7 and 5.1 is marked as safe-for-scripting, which allows remote attackers to control the Messenger application, and "change state," obtain contact information, and establish audio or video connections without notification via unknown vectors.
Family: windows Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-0082
 Version: 7
Platform(s): Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows XP
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
 Product(s): MSN Messenger 4.7
MSN Messenger 5.1
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 2

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2008-08-19 Name : Windows Messenger Could Allow Information Disclosure Vulnerability (955702)
File : nvt/secpod_ms08-050_900034.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
47403 Microsoft Windows Messenger ActiveX (Messenger.UIAutomation.1) Remote Privile...

Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)

Date Description
2008-08-14 IAVM : 2008-T-0040 - Microsoft Windows Messenger Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0016746

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2014-03-06 Microsoft Windows Message System ActiveX function call access
RuleID : 29538 - Revision : 2 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Message System ActiveX function call unicode access
RuleID : 13968 - Revision : 7 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Message System ActiveX function call access
RuleID : 13967 - Revision : 13 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS
2014-01-10 Microsoft Message System ActiveX clsid unicode access
RuleID : 13966 - Revision : 7 - Type : WEB-ACTIVEX
2014-01-10 Microsoft Windows Message System ActiveX clsid access
RuleID : 13965 - Revision : 12 - Type : BROWSER-PLUGINS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-08-13 Name : The remote host is vulnerable to an information disclosure due to Windows Mes...
File : smb_nt_ms08-050.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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2014-03-06 21:20:51
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2014-02-17 11:46:02
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2014-01-19 21:30:14
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2013-11-11 12:41:09
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2013-05-11 00:49:22
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