Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX up to Office 2003 Snapshot Viewer ActiveX Control snapview.ocx code injection

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A vulnerability has been found in Microsoft Office Snapshot Viewer ActiveX up to Office 2003 (Office Suite Software) and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the file snapview.ocx of the component Snapshot Viewer ActiveX Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The bug was discovered 07/07/2008. The weakness was disclosed 07/07/2008 by callAX (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2008-2463 since 05/28/2008. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

A public exploit has been developed by callAX and been published 3 weeks after the advisory. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as highly functional. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $25k-$100k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 33870 (MS08-041: Vulnerability in the ActiveX Control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955617)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows : Microsoft Bulletins and running in the context l.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 6239.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (44727), Tenable (33870) and Exploit-DB (6124). The entries 3822, 18774, 18776 and 18777 are pretty similar.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
ATT&CK: T1059

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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
Author: callAX
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Nessus ID: 33870
Nessus Name: MS08-041: Vulnerability in the ActiveX Control for the Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access Could Allow Remote Code Execution (955617)
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OpenVAS ID: 900004
OpenVAS Name: Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer ActiveX Control Vulnerability
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Saint ID: exploit_info/ms_access_snapview_file_download
Saint Name: Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer file download vulnerability

MetaSploit ID: ms08_041_snapshotviewer.rb
MetaSploit Name: Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: microsoft.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: callAX
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2008-2463 (🔍)
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X-Force: 44727
SecurityTracker: 1020433
Vulnerability Center: 18750 - [MS08-041] Microsoft Office Access ActiveX Vulnerability Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Code, Medium
SecurityFocus: 30114 - Snapshot Viewer for Microsoft Access ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download Vulnerability
Secunia: 30883
OSVDB: 46749 - Microsoft Access Snapshot Viewer ActiveX Control (snapview.ocx) Arbitrary Code Execution
Vupen: ADV-2008-2012

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Created: 03/17/2015 12:19
Updated: 08/12/2019 21:36
Changes: 03/17/2015 12:19 (102), 08/12/2019 21:36 (10)
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