The System.setClipboard method in ActionScript in Adobe Flash Player 9.0.124.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to populate the clipboard with a URL that is difficult to delete and does not require user interaction to populate the clipboard, as exploited in the wild in August 2008.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T09:53:00.576Z

Reserved: 2008-08-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2008-3873

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Status : Deferred

Published: 2008-08-29T17:41:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2008-3873

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Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2008-08-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2008-3873 - Bugzilla

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