CVE-2008-2463

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS Score
84.1%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 1% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
M
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
P
Availability
P
Published: July 7, 2008 (6519 days ago)
Last Modified: April 23, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control in snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0, as distributed in the standalone Snapshot Viewer and Microsoft Office Access 2000 through 2003, allows remote attackers to download arbitrary files to a client machine via a crafted HTML document or e-mail message, probably involving use of the SnapshotPath and CompressedPath properties and the PrintSnapshot method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

CWE

CWE-94

Affected Products

microsoft office snapshot viewer activex

References

🔗 marc.info 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 www.exploit-db.com 🔗 www.kb.cert.org 🔗 www.microsoft.com