CVE-2008-3068
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackepss 17%
exploitation probability
17%top 3% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Microsoft Crypto API 5.131.2600.2180 through 6.0, as used in Outlook, Windows Live Mail, and Office 2007, performs Certificate Revocation List (CRL) checks by using an arbitrary URL from a certificate embedded in a (1) S/MIME e-mail message or (2) signed document, which allows remote attackers to obtain reading times and IP addresses of recipients, and port-scan results, via a crafted certificate with an Authority Information Access (AIA) extension.
Affected products
n/a · n/aReferences
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3978https://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-002.txthttps://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-003.txthttps://www.cynops.de/advisories/AKLINK-SA-2008-004.txthttps://www.cynops.de/techzone/http_over_x509.htmlhttps://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-002-outlook-smime.txthttps://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-003-live-mail-smime.txthttps://www.klink.name/security/aklink-sa-2008-004-office2007-signatures.txthttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493947/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/494101/100/0/threadedhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28548http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019736