CVE-2008-2463
The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control in snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0, as distributed in the standalone Snapshot Viewer and…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 59.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control in snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0, as distributed in the standalone Snapshot Viewer and Microsoft Office Access 2000 through 2003, allows remote attackers to download arbitrary files to a client machine via a crafted HTML document or e-mail message, probably involving use of the SnapshotPath and CompressedPath properties and the PrintSnapshot method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/ms08_041_snapshotviewerRank excellentdisclosed 7 Jul 2008
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access - ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16605remote, windowspublished 20 Sept 2010Verified
- Microsoft Access - 'Snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0' ActiveX Remote File Download (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6124remote, windowspublished 24 Jul 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6124 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 40 days later
· 40 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 59.0% · top 0.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- TA08-189A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 6124 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- TA08-225A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2012 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- HPSBST02360 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/955179.mspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#837785 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 30883 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6120 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- microsoft-snapshotviewer-code-execution(43613) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 30114 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1020433 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-2458 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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