Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2008-4253

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4253 describes a memory corruption vulnerability in the FlexGrid ActiveX control, affecting Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro, Office FrontPage 2002, and Office Project 2003. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through crafted HTML documents due to improper error handling of incorrectly initialized objects. With a CVSS score of 8.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring user interaction (authentication) but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the EPSS score indicates a moderate likelihood of exploitation, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit modules like Metasploit or Nuclei. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal, suggesting it has not garnered significant attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2002CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_frontpage:2002:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2003CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2003:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2007CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:2007:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:6.0:*:runtime_extended_files:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

8.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
6.8
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
20.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2098 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 1,162 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 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

docs.microsoft.com / en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-070
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5994
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm
securityfocus.com / bid/32592
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-344A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3382