CVE-2008-4071
A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet...
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.
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
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.
- Record
CVE-2008-4071- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 Medium
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
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.
- Record
CVE-2008-4071- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2008-4056 No score
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.
- Record
EUVD-2008-4056- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-jprq-ffw9-m95p No score
A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet...
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.
- Record
GHSA-jprq-ffw9-m95p- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Public exploits
Links only. Every CVE stores no exploit code.
| Source | Link | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB | Adobe Acrobat 9 - ActiveX Remote Denial of Service | 2008-09-11 |
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, Exploit-DB, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2008-4071 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.0) in Adobe Acrobat, published September 15, 2008. Public exploit code exists. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.2%, the 97th percentile. No source names a fixed version.