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CVE-2008-4815

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4815 describes an untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 8.1.2 and earlier on Unix and Linux systems. This flaw allows attackers to gain privileges by tricking the software into executing a malicious Trojan Horse program located in an insecure RPATH-associated directory. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, potentially leading to compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its 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

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0782 is in the 90th 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: 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-2008-4815Moderate

Reader: insecure RPATH flaw

Nov 4, 2008

References

download.oracle.com / sunalerts/1019937.1.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-11/msg00002.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/32700
secunia.com / advisories/32872
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/46335
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0974.html
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