THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-2932
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-2932

Adminutil vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
3.4%
EPSS pct
88th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via % (percent) encoded HTTP input to unspecified CGI scripts in Fedora Directory Server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-2929.
Affected vendor
Redhat
Affected product
Adminutil
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2008-09-12

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 3.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-2932

  • Confirm whether Redhat Adminutil is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-2932.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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