CVE detail

CVE-2008-3475 — CVE-2008-3475

Published 2008-10-15 · Modified 2026-06-16 · Vendor microsoft · Product internet_explorer · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

8.8

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.3986

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

98.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 does not properly handle errors related to using the componentFromPoint method on xml objects that have been (1) incorrectly initialized or (2) deleted, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, aka "Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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