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CVE-2008-4299

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 15.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2008-09-29 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-189

Description

A certain ActiveX control in the Microsoft Internet Authentication Service (IAS) Helper COM Component in iashlpr.dll allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via a large integer value in the first argument to the PutProperty method. NOTE: this issue was disclosed by an unreliable researcher, so it might be incorrect.

Affected products

• Microsoft Internet Authentication Service Helper Com Component: all versions

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4323
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496695/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45556
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4323
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496695/100/0/threaded
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45556

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