CVE-2008-4256Not scoredCWE-399

CVE-2008-4256: Microsoft Visual Basic vulnerability

Microsoft · Visual Basic

Vendor fix available · Affected: Microsoft Visual Basic · Exploitation: likely to be exploited (10% or more)

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21.0%probability of exploitation in the next 30 days

97th percentile

050100

Higher than 97% of scored CVEs

Not scored yet. The CVE record carries no CVSS score.

DescriptionCVE.org

The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "Charts Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

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Exploitation: Likely to be exploited (10% or more). EPSS gives it a 10% or higher chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
CISA KEV: Not listed
Public check: No public nuclei template
Weakness: Resource Management Errors · Denial of Service
Vendor: Microsoft
Published: December 2008
Band: Likely to be exploited (10% or more), December 2008

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