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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2008-4503 json

The Settings Manager in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause victims to unknowingly click on a link or…

published 2008-10-09 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-4484

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.3%
EPSS 5.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The Settings Manager in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause victims to unknowingly click on a link or dialog via access control dialogs disguised as normal graphical elements, as demonstrated by hijacking the camera or microphone, and related to "clickjacking."

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 10.0.12.36-2.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 3 EXTRAS 9.0.151.0-1.el3.with.oss
  • flash-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.0.151.0-1.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0945RHSA-2008:0980

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-4503 updated

Adobe Flash Player clickjacking

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0980
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.0.12.36-2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0945
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0980
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.0.12.36-2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0945
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.151.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0980

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Exploit prediction

5.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.