8.5

CVE-2008-4252: microsoft office_frontpage

CVSS: 8.5v2.0HighModified
Published 10-12-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-4252 is a high (CVSS 8.5) vulnerability in microsoft office_frontpage. EPSS estimates a 20.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
38/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
20.98%
0%100%
High · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 10-12-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The DataGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "DataGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

20.98%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

98%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 20.98% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
20.98%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Microsoft5 products

1 vendor · 5 products

References

7 links