CVE-2008-5331 Weak cryptography in n/a

What is CVE-2008-5331?

CVE-2008-5331 is a high-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 5 Dec 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Adobe Acrobat 9 uses more efficient encryption than previous versions, which makes it easier for attackers to guess a document's password via a brute-force attack.

Weakness: CWE-310

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-5331?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Acrobat.

How do I fix CVE-2008-5331?

No fix has been published for CVE-2008-5331 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2008-5331 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-5331 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-5m66-j8h9-43hm.