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CVE-2008-2683

68
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2683 describes a critical vulnerability in the BIDIB.BIDIBCtrl.1 ActiveX control within Black Ice Barcode SDK 5.01 (BIDIB.ocx 10.9.3.0). This flaw allows remote attackers to force the download and storage of arbitrary files onto a user's system by manipulating the DownloadImageFileURL method. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring only medium attack complexity and no authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available through Metasploit and ExploitDB, indicating a high potential for exploitation, despite a lack of community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.01CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:black_ice:barcode_sdk:5.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
34.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Black Ice Cover Page ActiveX Control Arbitrary File Download · Jun 5, 2008
ExploitDB: EDB-17424 · Jun 21, 2011
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3476 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 8,915 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/30548
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/8276
securityreason.com / securityalert/8277
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42891
exploit-db.com / exploits/5750
exploit-db.com / exploits/17415
osvdb.org / 46007
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1768/references