Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-2111

Title: Yahoo Yahoo Assistant RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-2111

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date May 07, 2008

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.39%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-2111: The ActiveX Control (yNotifier.dll) in Yahoo! Assistant 3.6 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors in the Ynoifier COM object that trigger memory corruption.

Impacted Vendors

yahoo 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/30115 http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080506EN.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29065 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020004 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1471/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42233 http://secunia.com/advisories/30115 http://secway.org/advisory/AD20080506EN.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29065 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020004 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1471/references https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42233

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-2111 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31748

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 07, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.