CVE-2008-3704
Heap-based buffer overflow in the MaskedEdit ActiveX control in Msmask32.ocx 6.0.81.69, and possibly other versions before 6.0.84.18, in…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 55.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the MaskedEdit ActiveX control in Msmask32.ocx 6.0.81.69, and possibly other versions before 6.0.84.18, in Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long Mask parameter, related to not "validating property values with boundary checks," as exploited in the wild in August 2008, aka "Masked Edit Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
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 3 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits6
Metasploit modules1 module
- Microsoft Visual Studio Mdmask32.ocx ActiveX Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/ms08_070_visual_studio_msmaskRank normaldisclosed 13 Aug 2008
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Microsoft Visual Studio - Msmask32.ocx ActiveX Buffer Overflow (MS08-070) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16507remote, windowspublished 24 Nov 2010Verified
- Microsoft Visual Studio - 'Msmask32.ocx' ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6317remote, windowspublished 26 Aug 2008Verified
- Microsoft Visual Studio - 'Msmask32.ocx' ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6244dos, windowspublished 14 Aug 2008Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 6244 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 6317 (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 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 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 55.9% · 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: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
12
- 1020710 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2380 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3382 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 31498 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5794 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 30674 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MS08-070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- 6244 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-473.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- TA08-344A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- visualstudio-maskededit-bo(44444) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 6317 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_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-2008-3690 (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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