Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Sep 15, 2008· Updated Apr 23, 2026

CVE-2008-4071

Description

A certain ActiveX control in Adobe Acrobat 9, when used with Microsoft Windows Vista and Internet Explorer 7, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (browser crash) via an src property value with an invalid acroie:// URL.

Affected products

Adobe Inc./Acrobat
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

securityreason.com/securityalert/4257nvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45195nvd
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424nvd

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