CVE-2008-4033
Status: ModifiedMedium (4.3)—
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."
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Base score: 4.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 28%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 98
- Score date: 10/3/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-200
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
- 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
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