CVE-2008-4823

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors related to loose interpretation of an ActionScript attribute.

Affected products

Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: through 9.0.124.0; 7.0.69.0, 8.0.39.0, 9.0, 9.0.16, 9.0.18d60, 9.0.20 (+11)

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32702
http://secunia.com/advisories/33179
http://secunia.com/advisories/33390
http://secunia.com/advisories/34226
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-248586-1
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3338
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-440.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm
http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=834256&poid=
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-20.html

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