CVE-2008-4253

highpriority · track · 41EPSS 0.210 · 98 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

21.0% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 8.5 · high

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.08.5highAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 6.8 · impact 10

v2.07.2highAV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
microsoft office frontpage= 2002nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:office_frontpage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft project= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft project= 2007nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:project:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual basic= 6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_basic:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual foxpro= 8.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual foxpro= 9.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_foxpro:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual studio .net= 2002nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
microsoft visual studio .net= 2003nvdUScpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_.net:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-12-10modified 2026-06-16

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references (14)

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