CVE-2008-4071

Adobe Acrobat 9 - Denial of Service via Invalid acroie:// URL

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2008-4071. PoCs published by Jeremy Brown.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit leverages a URI handling vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat 9 to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. It uses a malformed 'acroie://' URI to crash the application when rendered in Internet Explorer.

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.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Jeremy Brown · htmldoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424

This exploit leverages a URI handling vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat 9 to trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. It uses a malformed 'acroie://' URI to crash the application when rendered in Internet Explorer.

Classification
Working Poc 90%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Adobe Acrobat 9
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Adobe Acrobat 9 installed · Internet Explorer 7 · Vista OS (as noted by the author)
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6424
Third Party Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_sreason
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4257
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45195

Scores

EPSS 0.1221
EPSS Percentile 95.6%

Details

CWE
CWE-20
Status published
Products (1)
adobe/acrobat 9
Published Sep 15, 2008
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026