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CVE-2008-1438

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (mpengine.dll) 1.1.3520.0 and 0.1.13.192, as used in mu

Unspecified vulnerability in Microsoft Malware Protection Engine (mpengine.dll) 1.1.3520.0 and 0.1.13.192, as used in multiple Microsoft products, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (disk space exhaustion) via a file with "crafted data structures" that trigger the creation of large temporary files, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1437.

MEDIUM · CVSS 5 EPSS 0.43712
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  • EPSS ≥ 0.10 - elevated exploitation probability
  • EPSS percentile: top 2% of all CVEs by exploitation likelihood
Sigma rules10 YARA rules0
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Affected Products & Versions

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microsoft antigen for exchangeall versions
microsoft antigen for smtp gatewayall versions
microsoft diagnostics and recovery toolkitall versions
microsoft forefront client securityall versions
microsoft forefront security for exchange serverall versions
microsoft forefront security for sharepointall versions
microsoft malware protection engineall versions
microsoft windows defenderall versions
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Sigma Hunt Rules

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Exact rules name this CVE ID. Product rules name an affected product in their title. Related rules cover techniques used by actors who exploited this CVE. Showing the most relevant matches; the complete related set is on the full drill-down.
producthighMicrosoft Malware Protection Engine Crash
producthighMicrosoft Malware Protection Engine Crash - WER
producthighTamper Windows Defender - PSClassic
producthighTamper Windows Defender Remove-MpPreference - ScriptBlockLogging
producthighTamper Windows Defender - ScriptBlockLogging
producthighPotential Windows Defender AV Bypass Via Dump64.EXE Rename
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Scoring & Timeline

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MEDIUM · CVSS v2 (legacy) · secure@microsoft.com
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This CVE predates CVSS v3; the legacy v2 score is shown so triage still has a severity to work with.
v2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Published to NVD13 May 2008 · 10:20 PM
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121129490723574&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30172Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29073
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020016
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-134A.htmlUS Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1506/references
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