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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2008-2463 json

The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control in snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0, as distributed in the standalone Snapshot Viewer and Micr…

published 2008-07-07 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2458

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
59.0%
EPSS 59.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX control in snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0, as distributed in the standalone Snapshot Viewer and Microsoft Office Access 2000 through 2003, allows remote attackers to download arbitrary files to a client machine via a crafted HTML document or e-mail message, probably involving use of the SnapshotPath and CompressedPath properties and the PrintSnapshot method. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a Startup folder.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms08_041_snapshotviewer)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

59.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/ms08_041_snapshotviewer Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download metasploit exploit, excellent rank, 2008-07-07
  • EDB-16605 Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access - ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download (Metasploit) remote, 2010-09-20
  • EDB-6124 Microsoft Access - 'Snapview.ocx 10.0.5529.0' ActiveX Remote File Download remote, 2008-07-24

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.