CVE-2008-4385

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 37.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-10-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Husdawg, LLC Systems Requirements Lab 3, as used by Instant Expert Analysis, allows remote attackers to force the download and execution of arbitrary programs via by specifiying a malicious website argument to the Init method in (1) a certain ActiveX control (sysreqlab2.cab, sysreqlab.dll, sysreqlabsli.dll, or sysreqlab2.dll) and (2) a certain Java applet in RLApplet.class in sysreqlab2.jar or sysreqlab.jar.

Affected products

Systemrequirementslab System Requirements Lab: 3

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/32236
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166651
http://www.sec-consult.com/files/20081016-0_sysreqlab.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497400
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31752
http://www.systemrequirementslab.com/bulletins/security_bulletin_1.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45873
http://secunia.com/advisories/32236
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/166651
http://www.sec-consult.com/files/20081016-0_sysreqlab.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497400
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31752

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