CVE-2008-5712

Exp

The HTML parser in KDE Konqueror 3.5.9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via (1) a long COLOR attribute in an HR element; or a long (a) BGCOLOR or (b) BORDERCOLOR attribute in a (2) TABLE, (3) TD, or (4) TR element. NOTE: the FONT vector is already covered by CVE-2008-4514.

Published: 2008-12-24 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-5712 is rated High Exploit Risk (65.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.80%). 2 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-2008-5712

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6704 exploit_db edb 2008-10-08 Exploit-DB ↗
6689 exploit_db edb 2008-10-06 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5712

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 2026-06-15 4.52% 3.80% -0.71%
2 2026-02-13 4.17% 4.52% +0.35%
3 2025-12-24 — 4.17% —

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5712

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-2008-5712

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-5712

vendor priority summary link
redhat — — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-5712
ubuntu negligible CVE-2008-5712 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-2008-5712

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2008-5712

  • 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-2008-5712

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
kde konqueror 3.5.9 cpe:2.3:a:kde:konqueror:3.5.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5712

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