CVE-2008-4256
The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1…
- 8.5HighCVSS base score
- 21.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 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 "Charts Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."
Timeline
ID reserved
By microsoft
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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 | High8.5 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 21.0% · top 2.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- ADV-2008-3382 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 32614 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1021369 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- MS08-070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5651 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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
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-2008-4239 (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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