CVE-2008-3068
Microsoft Crypto API 5.131.2600.2180 through 6.0, as used in Outlook, Windows Live Mail, and Office 2007, performs Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checks by using an arbitrary URL from a certificate embedded in a (1) S/MIME e-mail message or (2) signed document, which allows remote attackers to obtain reading times and IP addresses of recipients, and port-scan results, via a crafted certificate with an Authority Information Access (AIA) extension.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 17.4% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-3058)
- 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-2008-3058 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / access
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / excel
- microsoft / frontpage
- microsoft / groove
- microsoft / infopath
- microsoft / infopath
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office
- microsoft / office communicator
- microsoft / onenote
- microsoft / outlook
- microsoft / outlook
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / powerpoint
- microsoft / project professional
- microsoft / project standard
- microsoft / publisher
- microsoft / publisher
- microsoft / sharepoint designer
- microsoft / visio professional
- microsoft / visio standard
- microsoft / windows live mail
References
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3978
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493947/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494101/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28548
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019736
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019737
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019738
- https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-002.txt
- https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-003.txt
- https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-004.txt
- https://www.cynops.de/techzone/http_over_x509.html
- https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-002-outlook-smime.txt
- https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-003-live-mail-smime.txt
- https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-004-office2007-signatures.txt
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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