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CVE-2008-5698

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5698 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Konqueror (KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10) where an invalid document.load call can trigger an application crash by using a deleted object. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), indicating it can be exploited remotely with medium complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-6718 · Oct 10, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0349 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 19,956 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5698

CVE-2008-5698

References

secunia.com / advisories/32208
Vendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/4796
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45804
exploit-db.com / exploits/6718
securityfocus.com / bid/31696
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2915