CVE-2008-4252: Microsoft Office Frontpage

High severity, CVSS 8.5. EPSS: 21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DataGrid ActiveX control in Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual FoxPro 8.0 SP1 and 9.0 SP1 and SP2 does not properly handle errors during access to incorrectly initialized objects, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted HTML document, related to corruption of the "system state," aka "DataGrid Control Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

Affected products

• Microsoft Office Frontpage: version 2002 only
• Microsoft Project: version 2003 only; version 2007 only
• Microsoft Visual Basic: version 6.0 only
• Microsoft Visual Foxpro: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Microsoft Visual Studio .net: version 2002 only; version 2003 only

Published 2008-12-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.