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CVE-2008-2255

high · 9.3

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2254, aka "HTML Object Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

9.3
CVSS
29.1%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
98th
EPSS percentile
2008-08-13
Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-399

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
microsoftinternet_explorer5.01
microsoftinternet_explorer6
microsoftinternet_explorer6
microsoftinternet_explorer6
microsoftinternet_explorer7

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References

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2008-2255