CVE-2008-4844
CVE-2008-4844
Vexday Risk Score
72High priority
SSVC decision (CISA)
Act
Exploitation + impact → act immediately
Exploit maturity
Functional exploit
Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).
CVSS —EPSS 66.5%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei —Metasploit simPatch referenciado
Lifecycle
07 Dec 2008Metasploit module available
11 Dec 2008Published on NVD
20 Sep 2010Public PoC
Weaponization speed
647 daysto first PoC
Recommendation: Patch as soon as possible — active exploitation confirmed.
Use-after-free vulnerability in the CRecordInstance::TransferToDestination function in mshtml.dll in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, 6 SP1, and 7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via DSO bindings involving (1) an XML Island, (2) XML DSOs, or (3) Tabular Data Control (TDC) in a crafted HTML or XML document, as demonstrated by nested SPAN or MARQUEE elements, and exploited in the wild in December 2008.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 5
cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7477unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7583unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7410unverifiedexploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/16583unverifiedcve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/7403unverified⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://blogs.msdn.com/sdl/archive/2008/12/18/ms08-078-and-the-sdl.aspxhttp://code.google.com/p/inception-h2hc/http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=5458http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=123015308222620&w=2https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-078http://secunia.com/advisories/33089https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6007https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7403https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7410https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7477https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7583http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2008/12/09/yet-another-unpatched-drive-by-exploit-found-on-the-web/