CVE-2008-4020

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 24.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-10-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

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."

Affected products

Microsoft Office: xp-sp3

References

http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html
http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/32138
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021045
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969

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