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CVE-2008-4033

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 27.7%EU EUVD

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."

Key facts

CVSS score
4.3 (v2.0)
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-200
EPSS score
27.7% (98th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2008-4018)
Published
November 12, 2008
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4018 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • microsoft / expression web
  • microsoft / expression web
  • microsoft / groove
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office
  • microsoft / office compatibility pack
  • microsoft / office compatibility pack
  • microsoft / office word viewer
  • microsoft / sharepoint server
  • microsoft / sharepoint server
  • microsoft / windows 2000
  • microsoft / windows 2003 server
  • microsoft / windows 2003 server
  • microsoft / windows 7
  • microsoft / windows 7
  • microsoft / windows server 2008
  • microsoft / windows server 2008
  • microsoft / windows server 2008
  • microsoft / windows server 2008
  • microsoft / windows vista
  • microsoft / windows vista
  • microsoft / windows xp
  • microsoft / windows xp
  • microsoft / windows xp
  • microsoft / xml core services
  • microsoft / xml core services
  • microsoft / xml core services
  • microsoft / xml core services

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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