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  "kind": "base",
  "id": "crds:cve-2008-0015",
  "revision": 1,
  "title": "Windows Video ActiveX control — stack overflow from a web page",
  "summary": "A video control shipped with Windows 2000 through Server 2008 overflows a stack buffer when a crafted web page drives it, letting that page run code with the rights of whoever is browsing. Exploited in the wild from July 2009.",
  "source_type": "cve",
  "severity": "high",
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    "vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "version": "3.1"
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    "exploit_available": true,
    "attack_complexity": "low",
    "kev_added": "2026-02-17",
    "prerequisites": "The user must open a crafted web page in a browser that will instantiate the control."
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    "workaround_available": true
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  "mitre_attack": [
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  "kill_chain": "execution",
  "recommended_action": "Retire these Windows versions — every one is far out of support, and the MS09-037 update was the last fix they ever received.",
  "confidence": "high",
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      "retrieved_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
      "confidence": "high",
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    {
      "type": "cve",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0015",
      "label": "NVD record"
    },
    {
      "type": "cisa",
      "url": "https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog",
      "label": "CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog"
    },
    {
      "type": "vendor_advisory",
      "url": "http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/972890.mspx"
    },
    {
      "type": "exploit",
      "url": "http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6733"
    },
    {
      "type": "exploit",
      "url": "http://www.csis.dk/dk/nyheder/nyheder.asp?tekstID=799"
    }
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  "published_at": "2009-07-07T23:30:00.187Z",
  "issued_at": "2026-09-24T08:51:39.744Z",
  "tags": [
    "microsoft",
    "windows",
    "activex",
    "legacy",
    "remote-code-execution",
    "kev"
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}