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Unscored Public exploit CVE-2008-4033 EUVD-2008-4018GHSA-65h5-7wf2-rcj3

Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 through 6.0, as used in Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Internet Explorer, …

Published Nov 12, 2008 · Updated Aug 7, 2024 · Assigned by microsoft

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."

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Exploit-DB 1

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