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CVE-2008-2258

CVSS Score Not Available
61.43%
MEDIUM RiskEPSS (98th percentile)

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01, 6, and 7 accesses uninitialized memory in certain conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via vectors related to a document object "appended in a specific order" with "particular functions ... performed on" document objects, aka "HTML Objects Memory Corruption Vulnerability" or "Table Layout Memory Corruption Vulnerability," a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-2257.

Published: 8/13/2008
Modified: 4/9/2025
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Vulnerability Summary

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

61.43%MEDIUM Exploitation Risk
98th percentile

This vulnerability has a 61.43% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.