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CVE-2008-4922

61
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4922 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the DjVu ActiveX Control 3.0 for Microsoft Office (DjVu_ActiveX_MSOffice.dll). This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by supplying an overly long ImageURL property, potentially affecting other properties like Mode, Page, or Zoom. With a CVSS score of 9.3 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 99/100, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via Metasploit and ExploitDB, indicating a clear path for exploitation, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djvu:activex_control_for_microsoft_office_2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
32.75%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: DjVu DjVu_ActiveX_MSOffice.dll ActiveX ComponentBuffer Overflow · Oct 30, 2008
ExploitDB: EDB-16638 · Sep 25, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3275 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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/4560
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46214
exploit-db.com / exploits/6878
securityfocus.com / bid/31987
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2956