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CVE-2008-4401

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4401 describes a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier, where ActionScript's FileReference.browse and FileReference.download operations could be invoked without user interaction. This flaw allowed remote attackers to trigger a file browse dialog box via a malicious SWF file, potentially leading to further unspecified impact. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is considered extremely severe, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9.0.124.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.63CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0.63:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.15%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0715 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (4)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 3Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:9.0.151.0-1.el3.with.oss
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:9.0.151.0-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:10.0.12.36-2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4401Moderate

flash-plugin: upload/download user interaction

Oct 15, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
secunia.com / advisories/32270
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/32448
secunia.com / advisories/32702
secunia.com / advisories/32759
secunia.com / advisories/33390
secunia.com / advisories/34226
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45913
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-440.htm
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm
adobe.com / devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-18.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0945.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0980.html
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2838