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CVE-2008-4815
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier on Unix and Linux allows attackers to gain privileges…
High7.5EPSS 29.1%
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- mitre
Description
Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.2 and earlier on Unix and Linux allows attackers to gain privileges via a Trojan Horse program in an unspecified directory that is associated with an insecure RPATH.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 29.1% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (13)
- 32700 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32100 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- adobe-acrobat-reader-priv-escalation(46335) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 249366 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 32872 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-19.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469882 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0098 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- TA08-309A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 1021140 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0974 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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