THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-5821
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-5821

Safari vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Memory leak in WebKit.dll in WebKit, as used by Apple Safari 3.2 on Windows Vista SP1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and browser crash) via a long ALINK attribute in a BODY element in an HTML document.
Affected vendor
Apple
Affected product
Safari
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2009-01-02

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-5821

  • Confirm whether Apple Safari is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-5821.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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