CVE-2008-4071 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat 9's ActiveX control, specifically when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7. An attacker can trigger a browser crash by providing an invalid acroie:// URL to the src property. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and not present in CISA's KEV catalog, a public exploit (EDB-6424) exists, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.