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CVE-2008-1898

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 52.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-04-21 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A certain ActiveX control in WkImgSrv.dll 7.03.0616.0, as distributed in Microsoft Works 7 and Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an invalid WksPictureInterface property value, which triggers an improper function call.

Affected products

• Microsoft Office: 2003, 2007
• Microsoft Works: 7.0

References

• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0029.html
• http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/06/05/why-there-wont-be-a-security-update-for-wkimgsrv-dll.aspx
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491027/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28820
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41876
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5460
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5530
• http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2008-05/0029.html
• http://blogs.technet.com/swi/archive/2008/06/05/why-there-wont-be-a-security-update-for-wkimgsrv-dll.aspx
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491027/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28820
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41876

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