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CVE-2008-5331

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5331 describes a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat 9 where its improved encryption, while more efficient, inadvertently weakens password security, making documents more susceptible to brute-force attacks. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.0:*:professional:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.0:*:standard:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0200 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5331Moderate

acroread: more efficient password encryption

Dec 1, 2008

References

blogs.adobe.com / security/2008/12/acrobat_9_and_password_encrypt.html
elcomsoft.com / PR/apdfpr_081126_en.pdf
securityfocus.com / bid/32610