CVE-2008-5698

Exp

HTMLTokenizer::scriptHandler in Konqueror in KDE 3.5.9 and 3.5.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an invalid document.load call that triggers use of a deleted object. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Published: 2008-12-22 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-5698 is rated High Exploit Risk (65/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 7.75%, 92th percentile). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2008-5698

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6718 exploit_db edb 2008-10-10 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5698

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 2026-02-11 7.07% 7.75% +0.68%
2 2025-12-22 7.56% 7.07% -0.49%
3 2025-12-16 — 7.56% —

Full EPSS history (12 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5698

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-5698

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-5698

vendor priority summary link
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5698
ubuntu negligible CVE-2008-5698 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (kdebase), 6 status rows across 6 suites (dapper, gutsy, hardy, intrepid, jaunty, upstream): ignored 5, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-5698

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2008-5698

  • Red Hat (2009-01-19T00:00:00)

    Red Hat does not consider a crash of a client application such as Konqueror to be a security issue.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5698

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde konqueror — cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5698

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