CVE-2008-2463
The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control in snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0, as distributed in the standalone Snapshot Viewer and Microsoft Office Access 2000 through 2003, allows remote attackers to download arbitrary files to a client machine via a crafted HTML document or e-mail message, probably involving use of the SnapshotPath and CompressedPath properties and the PrintSnapshot method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-94
- EPSS score
- 59.0% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2458)
- Published
- July 7, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2458 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office snapshot viewer activex
- microsoft / office snapshot viewer activex
- microsoft / office snapshot viewer activex
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30883
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6124
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/837785(US Government Resource)
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/955179.mspx
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30114
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020433
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-189A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2012/references
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43613
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6120
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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