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CVE-2008-0298

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0298 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in KHTML WebKit, affecting Apple Safari 2.x and macOS. A remote attacker can crash the browser by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted web page, potentially involving a malformed STYLE attribute within a DIV element. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating medium attack complexity and partial availability impact, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit for this issue is available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31021 · Jan 12, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0326 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

securityreason.com / securityalert/3549
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/39635
s21sec.com / avisos/s21sec-039-en.txt
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/486202/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/27261
Exploit