Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 through 6.0, as used in Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Internet Explorer, and other products, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from another domain and corrupt the session state via HTTP request header fields, as demonstrated by the Transfer-Encoding field, aka "MSXML Header Request Vulnerability."
Published Nov 12, 2008
4.3
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 27.75%
Description
Cross-domain vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 through 6.0, as used in Microsoft Expression Web, Office, Internet Explorer, and other products, allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from another domain and corrupt the session state via HTTP request header fields, as demonstrated by the Transfer-Encoding field, aka "MSXML Header Request Vulnerability."
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 1
- 4.0
Running on/with
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- r2
- r2
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
Configuration 2
- 3.0
Running on/with
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
Configuration 3
- 6.0
Running on/with
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
- n/a
Configuration 4
- 5.0
Running on/with
- n/a
- 2
- 2007
- 2003
- 2007
- n/a
- n/a
- 2003
- 2007
- 2007
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (23 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 27.75% (0.27747) | 98.03th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 27.75% (0.27747) | 97.83th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Oct 28, 2025 | 62.58% (0.62579) | 98.27th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Oct 27, 2025 | 58.52% (0.58521) | 98.10th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Oct 1, 2025 | 62.58% (0.62579) | 98.33th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 58.44% (0.58441) | 98.02th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 75.29% (0.75286) | 98.55th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 57.58% (0.57582) | 97.94th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 9, 2025 | 74.69% (0.74694) | 98.43th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 1, 2025 | 69.77% (0.69768) | 98.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 25, 2024 | 68.63% (0.68626) | 98.16th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 71.73% (0.71729) | 98.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 94.60% (0.94598) | 99.34th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 20, 2023 | 94.65% (0.94648) | 98.99th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 12, 2023 | 95.25% (0.95245) | 99.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 23, 2023 | 96.03% (0.96026) | 99.20th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 13, 2023 | 96.58% (0.96580) | 99.36th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 1, 2023 | 96.71% (0.96711) | 99.39th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 96.79% (0.96790) | 99.40th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 20.65% (0.20648) | 96.51th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 20.65% (0.20648) | 96.20th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 12, 2022 | 20.65% (0.20648) | 94.11th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 24.38% (0.24379) | 95.20th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (7)
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32204 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5847 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP | |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32204 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch | |
| http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTThird Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN | |
| https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MS | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5847 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
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