THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-4817
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-4817

Download Manager vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
8.9%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The Download Manager in Adobe Acrobat Professional and Reader 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF document that calls an AcroJS function with a long string argument, triggering heap corruption.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Download Manager
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2008-11-05

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-4817

  • Confirm whether Adobe Download Manager is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4817.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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