CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-1457
9.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The Event System in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, and Server 2008 does not properly validate per-user subscriptions, which allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted event subscription request.
Affected configurations
• microsoft windows-nt 2008
• microsoft windows-nt vista
• microsoft windows-nt xp
• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows 2003 server
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31417 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30584 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020677 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2353 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-049 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6095 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121915960406986&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31417 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30584 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020677 www.securitytracker.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-225A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2353 www.vupen.com
- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2008/ms08-049 docs.microsoft.com
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6095 oval.cisecurity.org