Vulnerabilities > CVE-2008-4033 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
NONE Summary
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."
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Subverting Environment Variable Values The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
- Footprinting An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
- Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible) An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
- Browser Fingerprinting An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
- Session Credential Falsification through Prediction This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.
Exploit-Db
description | Microsoft XML Core Services DTD Cross-Domain Scripting PoC MS08-069. CVE-2008-4029,CVE-2008-4033. Remote exploit for windows platform |
id | EDB-ID:7196 |
last seen | 2016-02-01 |
modified | 2008-11-23 |
published | 2008-11-23 |
reporter | Jerome Athias |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/7196/ |
title | Microsoft XML Core Services DTD - Cross-Domain Scripting PoC MS08-069 |
Msbulletin
bulletin_id | MS08-069 |
bulletin_url | |
date | 2008-11-11T00:00:00 |
impact | Remote Code Execution |
knowledgebase_id | 955218 |
knowledgebase_url | |
severity | Critical |
title | Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution |
Nessus
NASL family | Windows : Microsoft Bulletins |
NASL id | SMB_NT_MS08-069.NASL |
description | The remote host is running a version of Windows that contains a flaw in the Windows XML Core Services. An attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code on the remote host by constructing a malicious script and enticing a victim to visit a website or view a specially crafted email message. |
last seen | 2020-06-01 |
modified | 2020-06-02 |
plugin id | 34744 |
published | 2008-11-12 |
reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2008-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/34744 |
title | MS08-069: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218) |
code |
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Oval
accepted | 2008-12-29T04:00:28.912-05:00 | ||||||||||||||||
class | vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||
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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." | ||||||||||||||||
family | windows | ||||||||||||||||
id | oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5847 | ||||||||||||||||
status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
submitted | 2008-11-19T14:19:00 | ||||||||||||||||
title | MSXML Header Request Vulnerability | ||||||||||||||||
version | 70 |
Seebug
bulletinFamily | exploit |
description | BUGTRAQ ID: 32204 CVE(CAN) ID: CVE-2008-4033 Microsoft XML Core Services(MSXML)允许使用JScript、VBScript和Visual Studio 6.0的用户开发基于XML的应用,以与其他遵循XML 1.0标准的应用程序交互操作。 Microsoft XML Core Services处理传输编码头的方式中存在一个信息泄露漏洞。如果用户浏览包含特制内容的网站或打开特制HTML电子邮件,此漏洞可能允许读取另一个Internet Explorer域中的网页的数据。 Microsoft XML Core Services 6.0 Microsoft XML Core Services 5.0 Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 Microsoft XML Core Services 3.0 临时解决方法: * 将Internet Explorer配置为在Internet和本地Intranet安全区域中运行ActiveX控件之前进行提示。 * 将Internet 和本地Intranet安全区域设置设为“高”,以便在这些区域中运行ActiveX控件和活动脚本之前进行提示。 厂商补丁: Microsoft --------- Microsoft已经为此发布了一个安全公告(MS08-069)以及相应补丁: MS08-069:Vulnerabilities in Microsoft XML Core Services Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955218) 链接:<a href=http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-069.mspx?pf=true target=_blank>http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms08-069.mspx?pf=true</a> |
id | SSV:4441 |
last seen | 2017-11-19 |
modified | 2008-11-13 |
published | 2008-11-13 |
reporter | Root |
title | Microsoft XML Core Services传输编码跨域信息泄露漏洞(MS08-069) |
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1021164
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32204
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-316A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3111
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-069
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5847