Executive Summary
Summary | |
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Title | Vulnerability in Microsoft Office Could Allow Information Disclosure (957699) |
Informations | |||
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Name | MS08-056 | First vendor Publication | 2008-10-14 |
Vendor | Microsoft | Last vendor Modification | 2008-11-12 |
Severity (Vendor) | Moderate | Revision | 1.1 |
Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3
Cvss vector : N/A | |||
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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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
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Cvss Base Score | 4.3 | Attack Range | Network |
Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Medium |
Cvss Expoit Score | 8.6 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
Revision Note: V1.1 (November 12, 2008): Corrected the removal information in the section, Security Update Deployment, to state that this security update cannot be uninstalled. Summary: This security update resolves a privately reported vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The vulnerability could allow information disclosure if a user clicks a specially crafted CDO URL. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could inject a client side script in the user's browser that could spoof content, disclose information, or take any action that the user could take on the affected Web site. |
Original Source
Url : http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS08-056.mspx |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
% | Id | Name |
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100 % | CWE-79 | Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25) |
OVAL Definitions
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5969 | |||
Oval ID: | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5969 | ||
Title: | Vulnerability in Content-Disposition Header Vulnerability | ||
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." | ||
Family: | windows | Class: | vulnerability |
Reference(s): | CVE-2008-4020 | Version: | 2 |
Platform(s): | Microsoft Windows 2000 Microsoft Windows XP Microsoft Windows Server 2003 | Product(s): | Microsoft Office XP |
Definition Synopsis: | |||
CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
Type | Description | Count |
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Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
Date | Description |
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2008-10-15 | Name : Microsoft Office nformation Disclosure Vulnerability (957699) File : nvt/secpod_ms08-056_900047.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
Id | Description |
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49052 | Microsoft Office CDO Protocol (cdo:) Content-Disposition: Attachment Header XSS |
Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM)
Date | Description |
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2008-10-16 | IAVM : 2008-T-0055 - Microsoft Office Information Disclosure Vulnerability Severity : Category II - VMSKEY : V0017779 |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
Date | Description |
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2008-10-15 | Name : The remote installation of Microsoft Office is vulnerable to an information d... File : smb_nt_ms08-056.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
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