The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1…

Description

The Charts ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0, Visual Studio .NET 2002 SP1 and 2003 SP1, and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 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 "Charts 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)

• ADV-2008-3382 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 32614 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 1021369 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• MS08-070 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
• oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5651 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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

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-2008-4256](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-4256.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-4256)

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