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CVE-2008-3068

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3068 describes a vulnerability in Microsoft Crypto API versions 5.131.2600.2180 through 6.0, affecting products like Outlook, Windows Live Mail, and Office 2007. This flaw allows remote attackers to leverage crafted certificates embedded in S/MIME emails or signed documents to perform Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checks using arbitrary URLs. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity, and allows attackers to obtain recipient reading times, IP addresses, and port-scan results. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:access:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:excel:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:frontpage:2003:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:groove:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
17.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1740 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/3978
cynops.de / advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-002.txt
cynops.de / advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-003.txt
cynops.de / advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-004.txt
cynops.de / techzone/http_over_x509.html
klink.name / security/aklink-sa-2008-002-outlook-smime.txt
klink.name / security/aklink-sa-2008-003-live-mail-smime.txt
klink.name / security/aklink-sa-2008-004-office2007-signatures.txt
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493947/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/494101/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28548
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id