CVE-2008-5499
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player for Linux 10.0.12.36, and 9.0.151.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 79.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player for Linux 10.0.12.36, and 9.0.151.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Flash Player ActionScript Launch Command Execution Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/linux/browser/adobe_flashplayer_aslaunchRank gooddisclosed 17 Dec 2008
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - ActionScript Launch Command Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18761remote, linuxpublished 20 Apr 2012Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 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)
- 79.4% · top 0.4% 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
13
- 1021458 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 33221 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3449 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:1047 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 34226 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 33294 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32896 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 50796 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- GLSA-200903-23 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-24.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- flashplayer-swf-code-execution-var1(47445) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2008:059 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 33267 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2008-5476 (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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