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CVE-2008-4382

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4382 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by crafting JavaScript that calls the alert function with a large, URL-encoded string of invalid characters. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.5.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.10%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0111 is in the 40th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4382

CVE-2008-4382

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45645
securityfocus.com / archive/1/496849/100/0/threaded