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CVE-2008-4546

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4546 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player versions prior to 9.0.277.0 and 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610. A remote web server can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and browser crash by sending differing SWF versions in successive HTTP responses. The vulnerability has a CVSS base score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity. It can be exploited remotely with medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacts availability. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog or Hot List, an exploit module for this specific issue is available on ExploitDB (EDB-32452). There is no evidence of active exploitation, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0.45.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.45.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.112.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.112.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.115.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.115.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0.12.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:10.0.12.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
16.77%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32452 · Oct 2, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1677 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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, 0.0 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: flash-plugin-0:9.0.277.0-1.el3.with.oss
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:9.0.277.0-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:10.1-2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-4546Low

flash-plugin: crash caused by SWF files with different SWF versions obtained from the same URL

Oct 2, 2008

References

itrc.hp.com / service/cki/docDisplay.do
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00000.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html
secunia.com / advisories/32759
secunia.com / advisories/40545
secunia.com / advisories/43026
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/4401
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45630
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16302
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7187
support.apple.com / kb/HT4435
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html
mochimedia.com / ~matthew/flashcrash
Exploit
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0464.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0470.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/496929/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/31537
turbolinux.co.jp / security/2010/TLSA-2010-19j.txt
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA10-162A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1421
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1432
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1434
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1453
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1482
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1522
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1793
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0192