THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4256
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4256

Office Frontpage vulnerability

CVSS
8.5
EPSS
21.0%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "Charts Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Affected vendor
Microsoft
Affected product
Office Frontpage
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-12-10

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 21.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4256

  • Confirm whether Microsoft Office Frontpage is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4256.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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