CVE-2008-3068
Microsoft Crypto API 5.131.2600.2180 through 6.0, as used in Outlook, Windows Live Mail, and Office 2007, performs Certificate Revocation…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 17.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Microsoft Crypto API 5.131.2600.2180 through 6.0, as used in Outlook, Windows Live Mail, and Office 2007, performs Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checks by using an arbitrary URL from a certificate embedded in a (1) S/MIME e-mail message or (2) signed document, which allows remote attackers to obtain reading times and IP addresses of recipients, and port-scan results, via a crafted certificate with an Authority Information Access (AIA) extension.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.4% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
14
- https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-003.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 3978 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20080709 Re: Unauthorized reading confirmation from Outlook (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28548 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-004-office2007-signatures.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-002.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-004.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1019736 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 1019738 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-003-live-mail-smime.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-002-outlook-smime.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1019737 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://www.cynops.de/techzone/http_over_x509.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20080703 Unauthorized reading confirmation from Outlook (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2008-3058 (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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