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CVE-2008-5362

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5362 is a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 9.x and 10.x, and Adobe AIR, where the DefineConstantPool action in the ActionScript 2 virtual machine improperly handles an untrusted input value for a "constant count." This medium-complexity vulnerability allows remote attackers to read sensitive data from process memory via a crafted PDF file, with a CVSS score of 4.3. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0.16.0, < 9.0.151.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10, < 10.0.12.36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
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
3.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0380 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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-2008-5362Important

security flaw

Nov 17, 2008

References

secunia.com / advisories/33390
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/34226
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200903-23.xml
Third Party Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/4692
Third Party Advisory
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
Broken Link
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm
Third Party Advisory
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-22.html
PatchVendor Advisory
isecpartners.com / advisories/2008-01-flash.txt
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/498561/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry