Threats / Adobe / CVE-2008-0655
CVE-2008-0655
· EUVD no mirror located
· GCVE no mirror located
Verified 2026-06-22
Adobe Acrobat and Reader vulnerability
Adobe Acrobat and Reader contains a design flaw allowing specially crafted files to be printed silently an arbitrary number of times, enabling resource exhaustion and denial of service.
Verdict
Today item — known-exploited.
An attacker can exploit a design flaw in Adobe Acrobat and Reader to trigger silent, repeated printing of malicious documents, causing printer resource exhaustion, paper waste, and potential system degradation without user awareness.
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Is it exploitable?
— the evidence, ranked above the scoreReported exploitation
4 independent public reports of in-the-wild exploitation are cataloged.Distinct reporting sources (vendor, incident response, government); open them for the underlying claims.
Exploited in the wild
Listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-06-08).
Probability (EPSS)
EPSS 0.36844 — modeled likelihood of exploitation activity.EPSS is a daily-changing model output — open the source for today's value.
Severity / affected
Affected: Adobe, Acrobat and Reader. Confirm exact fixed builds in the vendor advisory.
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Who’s exploiting it?
— attribution turns risk into urgencyAttribution not established
No confirmed (advisory-backed) threat-actor attribution is established for this record. Absence of a named actor is not absence of compromise — see Coverage & confidence.
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Why it matters
— the attack path, told twice: adversary, then board1
Front door — unauthenticated access narrative 1
Attacker
I craft a PDF document with embedded print commands that execute silently when opened.
Business
Uncontrolled printing consumes paper, toner, and printer resources, disrupting operations and increasing supply costs.
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Keys to the kingdom — privilege/identity takeover narrative 2
Attacker
I distribute the malicious PDF via email or web download to target users.
Business
End users unknowingly trigger repeated printing, reducing productivity and creating support burden for IT teams.
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Lateral reach — past segmentation narrative 3
Attacker
I exploit the silent execution to avoid detection while maximizing resource consumption.
Business
Printer infrastructure becomes unavailable for legitimate business use, impacting document workflows and service availability.
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What to do
— defensible action- Remediate per the vendor advisory — confirm the fixed build for your version and verify exposure.1
Say it to the boardA vulnerability with this evidence profile is a defensible budget line, not a backlog ticket — fund the change against the proof above.
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