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CVE-2008-4071

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 18.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an src property value with an invalid acroie:// URL.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat for Edge: 9

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4257
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45195
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4257
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45195
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424

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