CVE-2008-0237

Rich Textbox Control vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

20.5%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

The Microsoft Rich Textbox ActiveX Control (RICHTX32.OCX) 6.1.97.82 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by invoking the insecure SaveFile method.

Affected vendor

Microsoft

Affected product

Rich Textbox Control

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2008-01-11

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 20.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Microsoft Rich Textbox Control is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-0237.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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