CVE-2008-7053

Exp

LogMeIn Remote Access Utility ActiveX control (RACtrl.dll) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by setting the fgcolor and bgcolor properties to certain long values that trigger memory corruption.

Published: 2009-08-24 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-7053 is rated High Exploit Risk (79.7/100): CVSS Critical severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.54%, 93th percentile). Core evidence: 3 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-2008-7053

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6326 exploit_db edb 2008-08-29 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-7053

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 22.92% 6.54% -16.37%
2 2026-03-12 18.75% 22.92% +4.17%
3 2026-01-13 18.75%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-7053

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.3 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
8.6 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-7053

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2008-7053

  • LogMeIn (2014-06-18T13:31:40.190)

    LogMeIn is aware of the CVE-2008-7053 issue and has resolved it on 9/3/2008. The fix is included in LogMeIn ActiveX Plugin since version 392-G2.”

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-7053

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
logmein ractrl.dll cpe:2.3:a:logmein:ractrl.dll:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-7053

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