CVE-2008-2640
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the Flex 3 History Management feature in Adobe Flex 3.0.1 SDK and Flex Builder 3, and generated applications, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the anchor identifier to (1) client-side-detection-with-history/history/historyFrame.html, (2) express-installation-with-history/history/historyFrame.html, or (3) no-player-detection-with-history/history/historyFrame.html in templates/html-templates/. NOTE: Firefox 2.0 and possibly other browsers prevent exploitation.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.8% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2635)
- Published
- June 18, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2635 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / flex
- adobe / flex builder
References
- http://blog.watchfire.com/wfblog/2008/06/javascript-code.html(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30746(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020301
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb08-14.html(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29778(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1862
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43150
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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