CVE-2008-1765
Buffer overflow in Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2, and possibly After Effects CS3, allows user-assisted remote attackers and…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 20.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in Adobe Photoshop Album Starter Edition 3.2, and possibly After Effects CS3, allows user-assisted remote attackers and physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary code via a BMP file with an invalid image header. NOTE: the related issue in Photoshop CS3 is already covered by CVE-2007-2244.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Album Starter 3.2 - Unchecked Local Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 5479local, windowspublished 21 Apr 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 5479 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 20.0% · top 2.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 28874 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-04.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 5479 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1317 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20080421 Adobe Unchecked Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 29838 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- adobe-bmp-image-file-bo(41941) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1019910 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-1765 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-1765)Record last updated .