CVE-2008-5937 EXPLOIT
7.8
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 2.7% (pctl 86)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
AyeView 2.20 allows user-assisted attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or application crash) via a bitmap (aka .bmp) file with large height and width values.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.8 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| EPSS | 2.74% — more likely to be exploited than 86% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-20 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2009-01-22 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (1)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| zkesoft | ayeview |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | AyeView 2.20 - Invalid Bitmap Header Parsing Crash | 2008-10-05 |
References
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