THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-2930
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2930

Directory Server vulnerability

CVSS
7.1
EPSS
6.6%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.
Affected vendor
Fedora
Affected product
Directory Server
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2008-08-29

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 6.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2930

  • Confirm whether Fedora Directory Server is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2930.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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