CVE-2008-0655

CRITICALNVD 8.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-06-08), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2008-0665 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 38%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 8.1.2 have unknown impact and attack vectors.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
84
EG Risk 84/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
38%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
38% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0655

Published

February 7, 2008

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.
Web page

Adobe Acrobat Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 200803-01) — Gentoo security

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/30840
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/29205
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/29065
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/28983
Web page

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/28851
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Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/28802

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatacroread-0:8.1.2-1.el5.32008-02-22redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 26× in last 7d / 215× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 2,041 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,941 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 04:50 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 04:50 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 04:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-01 05:02 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-11-01 05:02 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-01 05:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-31 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  8. 2026-10-31 05:13 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-31 05:13 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-31 05:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-30 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  12. 2026-10-30 05:24 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-30 05:24 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-30 05:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-10-29 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  16. 2026-10-29 05:35 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-29 05:35 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-29 05:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-10-28 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  20. 2026-10-28 05:47 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-28 05:47 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-28 05:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-10-27 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  24. 2026-10-27 05:59 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-10-27 05:59 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-27 05:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-10-26 06:10 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-26 06:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-25 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-25 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  6. 2026-10-25 06:22 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-25 06:22 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-25 06:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-10-24 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  10. 2026-10-24 06:33 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 06:33 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-24 06:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  13. 2026-10-23 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  14. 2026-10-23 06:43 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-23 06:43 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-23 06:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  17. 2026-10-22 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  18. 2026-10-22 06:54 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-22 06:54 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-22 06:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  21. 2026-10-21 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  22. 2026-10-21 07:06 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-21 07:06 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-21 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  25. 2026-10-20 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  26. 2026-10-20 07:16 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-20 07:16 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-20 07:16 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  29. 2026-10-19 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  30. 2026-10-19 07:26 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-19 07:26 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-19 07:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  33. 2026-10-18 07:37 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-18 07:37 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-18 07:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  36. 2026-10-17 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  37. 2026-10-17 07:49 UTCEG score recompute
  38. 2026-10-17 07:49 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-17 07:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  40. 2026-10-16 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  41. 2026-10-16 07:58 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-16 07:58 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-16 07:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  44. 2026-10-15 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  45. 2026-10-15 08:08 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-15 08:08 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-15 08:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  48. 2026-10-14 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  49. 2026-10-14 08:18 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-14 08:18 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-14 08:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  52. 2026-10-13 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  53. 2026-10-13 08:29 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-13 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-12 21:54 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-10-12 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  57. 2026-10-12 08:39 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-10-12 08:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  59. 2026-10-12 04:56 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-12 04:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  61. 2026-10-12 01:13 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-12 01:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-10-11 21:30 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-10-11 21:30 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-11 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  66. 2026-10-11 17:49 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-11 17:49 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-11 17:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  69. 2026-10-11 14:04 UTCEG score recompute
  70. 2026-10-11 14:04 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-10-11 14:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  72. 2026-10-11 13:37 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 38% · 98th percentile
  73. 2026-10-11 10:23 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-11 10:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-qw37-hh98-8g3j · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  75. 2026-10-11 06:42 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2008-0655?
CVE-2008-0655 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on February 7, 2008. Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 8.1.2 have unknown impact and attack vectors.
When was CVE-2008-0655 made public?
CVE-2008-0655 was made public on February 6, 2008: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on February 7, 2008. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2008-0655 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2008-0655 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 8, 2022, affecting Adobe Acrobat and Reader. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2008-0655?
CVE-2008-0655 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2008-0655?
CVE-2008-0655 affects Adobe Acrobat and Reader.
How do I remediate CVE-2008-0655?
A fix for CVE-2008-0655 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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