CVE-2008-3538

Enterprise Discovery vulnerability

CVSS

9.0

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Unspecified vulnerability in HP Enterprise Discovery 2.0 through 2.52 on Windows allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors. NOTE: the initial description of this CVE was inadvertently associated with libxml2, but it should be for HP Enterprise Discovery.

Affected vendor

Affected product

Enterprise Discovery

CVSS vector

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

Published

2008-09-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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