THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2008-5010
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2008-5010

Opensolaris vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
in.dhcpd in the DHCP implementation in Sun Solaris 8 through 10, and OpenSolaris before snv_103, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and daemon exit) via unknown DHCP requests related to the "number of offers," aka Bug ID 6713805.
Affected vendor
Sun
Affected product
Opensolaris
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2008-11-10

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 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-5010

  • Confirm whether Sun Opensolaris is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-5010.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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