The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and…

Description

The FlexGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2, Office FrontPage 2002 SP3, and Office Project 2003 SP3 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 "FlexGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

21.0% · top 2.4% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• 32592 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2008-3382 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 1021369 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• MS08-070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_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
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5994 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-4253](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-4253.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-4253)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 10:08 UTC.