CVE-2008-4033

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 27.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 through 6.0, as used in Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Internet Explorer, and other products, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from another domain and corrupt the session state via HTTP request header fields, as demonstrated by the Transfer-Encoding field, aka "MSXML Header Request Vulnerability."

Affected products

Microsoft Corporation XML Core Services: 4.0, 3.0, 6.0, 5.0

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32204
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5847
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32204
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111

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