CVEs / CVE-2008-0655

CVE-2008-0655: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Unspecified Vulnerability

Known exploited in the CISA KEV catalog since 8 Jun 2022
high 8.8 CVSS 3.1 (NVD)
EPSS 37.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of CVEs (30 Oct 2026)
Last changed at its sources 16 Jun 2026

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Summary

Adobe Acrobat and Reader contains an unespecified vulnerability described as a design flaw which could allow a specially crafted file to be printed silently an arbitrary number of times.
CISA, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 8.1.2 have unknown impact and attack vectors.
The CVE record, via NVD · published 7 Feb 2008 · NVD status: Analyzed

Affected and fixed versions

As stated by the CVE record (from the CNA)
Product	Affected	Fixed in
n/a n/a	n/a	—

Exploitation

In CISA KEV since	8 Jun 2022
Due date for US federal agencies	22 Jun 2022
Used in ransomware campaigns	Unknown
Required action	Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity

CVSS 3.1	8.8 high `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H` Scored by NVD
Weakness	CWE-200

References

CVE-2008-0655 on NVD
CVE-2008-0655 in the CISA KEV catalog
http://blogs.adobe.com/acroread/2008/02/adobe_reader_812_for_linux_and.html Broken Link
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403079&sliceId=1 Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00007.html Broken Link
http://secunia.com/advisories/28802 Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28851 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/28983 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29065 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/29205 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/30840 Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml Third Party Advisory
http://securitytracker.com/id?1019346 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-239286-1 Broken Link
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa08-01.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-13.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0144.html Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27641 Broken Link, Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-043A.html Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0425 Broken Link
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1966/references Broken Link, Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10299 Broken Link

Sources

Exploitation status from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EPSS scores from FIRST. Descriptions, severity and references from the National Vulnerability Database. Open-source package versions from OSV (CC-BY 4.0). Text is shown as each source states it; Stackurity does not edit it. Check the vendor's advisory before acting.

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