{"id":"CVE-2008-5331","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-5331","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:29:51.335Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2008-12-05T00:30:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:59:44.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-310"],"affected":["adobe/acrobat"],"epss":{"score":0.02002,"percentile":0.80639,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.00%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://blogs.adobe.com/security/2008/12/acrobat_9_and_password_encrypt.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.elcomsoft.com/PR/apdfpr_081126_en.pdf","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32610","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://blogs.adobe.com/security/2008/12/acrobat_9_and_password_encrypt.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.elcomsoft.com/PR/apdfpr_081126_en.pdf","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32610","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5331","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}