{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-1898 exists.","fix":"No fix has been published for CVE-2008-1898 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.","what":"CVE-2008-1898 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 21 Apr 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-1898 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-1898 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Microsoft Office, published on 21 Apr 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2008-1898 exists.\n\nAffected product: Microsoft Office. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1898/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1898/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-1898","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1898/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-1898","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-q85g-qvvf-hm5m"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Microsoft Office","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code or crash the browser via a malicious ActiveX control in Microsoft Office applications.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"office","vendor":"microsoft"},{"product":"works","vendor":"microsoft"}],"cvss":{"score":9.3,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"A certain ActiveX control in WkImgSrv.dll 7.03.0616.0, as distributed in Microsoft Works 7 and Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an invalid WksPictureInterface property value, which triggers an improper function call.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":3,"first_seen":"2008-04-17","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":1,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-04-17","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"5460","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Works 7 - 'WkImgSrv.dll' ActiveX Denial of Service (PoC)"},{"date":"2008-05-02","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"5530","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Works 7 - 'WkImgSrv.dll' ActiveX Remote Buffer Overflow"},{"date":"2008-11-28","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/windows/fileformat/msworks_wkspictureinterface","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Works 7 WkImgSrv.dll WKsPictureInterface() ActiveX Code Execution"},{"date":"2010-09-25","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"16649","stars":null,"title":"Microsoft Works 7 - 'WkImgSrv.dll' WKsPictureInterface() ActiveX (Metasploit)"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":null,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-1898","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"microsoft:office","products":["microsoft:office","microsoft:works"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":7,"next":{"headline":"Missing authorization in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-1900"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-1897"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-04-21","related":[{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Office Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2018-0798","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2018-01-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Office Uninitialized Memory Use","id":"CVE-2015-1770","kev_date_added":"2022-03-28","published":"2015-06-10"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer","id":"CVE-2006-2492","kev_date_added":"2022-06-08","published":"2006-05-20"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Microsoft Office Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2018-0802","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2018-01-10"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Microsoft Office Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2017-11882","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2017-11-15"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Microsoft Office Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2017-8570","kev_date_added":"2022-02-25","published":"2017-07-11"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Microsoft Office Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2017-0261","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2017-05-12"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code or crash the browser via a malicious ActiveX control in Microsoft Office applications.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-1898/"}