CVE-2008-4020
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a document that contains a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header and is accessed through a cdo: URL, which renders the content instead of raising a File Download dialog box, aka "Vulnerability in Content-Disposition Header Vulnerability."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 24.4% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4005)
- Published
- October 15, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4005 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / office
References
- http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.html
- http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122479227205998&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32138(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021045
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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