CVE-2008-0768

Informix Dynamic Server vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

4.5%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Multiple stack-based and heap-based buffer overflows in the Windows RPC components for IBM Informix Storage Manager (ISM), as used in Informix Dynamic Server (IDS) 10.00.xC8 and earlier and 11.10.xC2 and earlier, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted XDR requests.

Affected vendor

Ibm

Affected product

Informix Dynamic Server

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2008-02-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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