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CVE-2008-4823

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-4823 describes a Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player versions 9.0.124.0 and earlier. This flaw allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML due to the player's loose interpretation of an ActionScript attribute. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and a potential impact of partial integrity compromise, without affecting confidentiality or availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage regarding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 9.0.124.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.69.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0.69.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0.39.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:8.0.39.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0473 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 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 (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-2008-4823Moderate

Flash Player HTML injection flaw

Nov 5, 2008

References

lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce//2008//Dec/msg00000.html
secunia.com / advisories/32702
secunia.com / advisories/33179
secunia.com / advisories/33390
secunia.com / advisories/34226
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
support.apple.com / kb/HT3338
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-440.htm
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm
support.nortel.com / go/main.jsp
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-20.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0980.html
securityfocus.com / bid/32129
Patch
securitytracker.com / id
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-350A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/3444