CVE-2008-4071

medium

Description

A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an src property value with an invalid acroie:// URL.

References

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45195

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4257

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-09-15

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H