Is CVE-2008-4261 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2008-4261 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2008-4261?

CVE-2008-4261 has a CVSS v2 base score of 9.3 (HIGH).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2008-4261?

CVE-2008-4261 has an EPSS score of 29.71% (98th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2008-4261

HIGHEPSS 98th pctl

9.3

CVSS v2

NVD

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 SP4, 6 SP1 on Windows 2000, and 6 on Windows XP and Server 2003 does not properly handle extraneous data associated with an object embedded in a web page, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted HTML tags that trigger memory corruption, aka "HTML Rendering Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

CWE-399

CVSS v2 Vector

No CVSS vector data available.

Exploit Intelligence

29.71%probability of exploitation in 30 days

98thpercentile

Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-04-23.