CVE-2008-5667

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The scanning engine in VirusBlokAda VBA32 Personal Antivirus 3.12.8.x allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a malformed RAR archive.

Published: 2008-12-19 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5667 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.75%, 92th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-5667

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6658 exploit_db edb 2008-10-03 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5667

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-02-07 7.07% 7.75% +0.68%
2 2025-12-18 6.57% 7.07% +0.50%
3 2025-12-14 6.57%

Full EPSS history (18 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5667

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5667

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5667

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
virusblokada vba32_personal_antivirus 3.12.8 cpe:2.3:a:virusblokada:vba32_personal_antivirus:3.12.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5667

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