CVE-2008-4020 (GCVE-0-2008-4020)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2008-10-15 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 10:00
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Microsoft Office XP SP3 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a document that contains a "Content-Disposition: attachment" header and is accessed through a cdo: URL, which renders the content instead of raising a File Download dialog box, aka "Vulnerability in Content-Disposition Header Vulnerability."
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