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CVE-2008-3873
The System.setClipboard method in ActionScript in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to populate the…
Medium4.3EPSS 17.0%
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- mitre
Description
The System.setClipboard method in ActionScript in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to populate the clipboard with a URL that is difficult to delete and does not require user interaction to populate the clipboard, as exploited in the wild in August 2008.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 17.0% · top 2.9% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (22)
- http://support.nortel.com/go/main.jsp?cscat=BLTNDETAIL&DocumentOID=834256&poid= (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33390 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-18.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-020.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32702 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- adobe-flash-setclipboard-hijacking(44584) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/articles/fplayer10_security_changes.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2008/08/clipboard_attack.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 34226 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2838 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1733 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- GLSA-200903-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 1020724 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 32759 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0945 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0980 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-440.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 248586 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 32448 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:025 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1759 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2008-3859 (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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