Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 15, 2008· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2008-4020
CVE-2008-4020
Description
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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References
12- secunia.com/advisories/32138nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31693nvdPatch
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-288A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN55410403/index.htmlnvd
- jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2008/JVNDB-2008-000070.htmlnvd
- marc.infonvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2807nvd
- docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-056nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45546nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45550nvd
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5969nvd
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