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CVE-2008-4813

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4813 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 8.1.2 and earlier, and before 7.1.1. It allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by crafting malicious PDF documents that either trigger memory corruption via a Collab object's GetCosObj method or contain a malformed PDF object during parsing. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a medium attack complexity, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:unknown:3d:*:*:*:*:*
<= 8.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:unknown:professional:*:*:*:*:*
<= 8.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:unknown:standard:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.1.1:unknown:3d:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0950 is in the 75th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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: 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-2008-4813Critical

Reader: PDF objects parsing and JavaScript getCosObj handling memory corruption flaw

Nov 4, 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
securityreason.com / securityalert/4564
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46333
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46344
support.nortel.com / go/main.jsp
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html
PatchVendor Advisory
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/498056/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/498057/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/32100
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
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-08-073
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-08-074