CVE-2008-2640

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Flex 3 History Management feature in Adobe Flex 3.0.1 SDK and Flex Builder 3, and generated applications, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the anchor identifier to (1) client-side-detection-with-history/history/historyFrame.html, (2) express-installation-with-history/history/historyFrame.html, or (3) no-player-detection-with-history/history/historyFrame.html in templates/html-templates/. NOTE: Firefox 2.0 and possibly other browsers prevent exploitation.

Affected products

Adobe Flex: 3.0.1
Adobe Flex Builder: 3

References

http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/06/javascript-code.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30746
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020301
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-14.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29778
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1862
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43150
http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/06/javascript-code.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30746
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020301
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-14.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29778

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