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CVE-2008-2549

52
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2549 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 8.1.2 and earlier, and versions prior to 7.1.1. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malformed PDF document, leading to an application crash and potentially arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and requiring no authentication, with a potential impact of partial availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, a proof-of-concept exploit is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:4.0.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
52.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5687 · May 29, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5262 is in the 99th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 3Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.3-1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.3-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.3-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2549Critical

acroread: crash and possible code execution

May 29, 2008

References

download.oracle.com / sunalerts/1019937.1.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
secunia.com / advisories/32700
secunia.com / advisories/32872
secunia.com / advisories/35163
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42886
support.nortel.com / go/main.jsp
support.nortel.com / go/main.jsp
exploit-db.com / exploits/5687
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html
securityfocus.com / bid/29420
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-309A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3001
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/0098