Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2008-5821

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5821 describes a memory leak vulnerability in WebKit.dll, affecting Apple Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista SP1. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by providing a long ALINK attribute within a BODY element in an HTML document, leading to memory exhaustion and browser crashes. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium severity) with a low attack complexity and no authentication required, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apple:safari:3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-12408 · Apr 26, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0392 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

jbrownsec.blogspot.com / 2008/12/new-year-research-are-upon-us.html
packetstormsecurity.org / 0812-exploits/safari_webkit_ml.txt
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/47724
securityfocus.com / bid/33080
Exploit