THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-2559
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2559

Borland Interbase vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.9%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Integer overflow in Borland Interbase 2007 SP2 (8.1.0.256) allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed packet to TCP port 3050, which triggers a stack-based buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue might be related to CVE-2008-0467.
Affected vendor
Damian Frizza
Affected product
Borland Interbase
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-06-05

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2559

  • Confirm whether Damian Frizza Borland Interbase is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2559.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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