CVE-2008-5073

Zenworks Desktop Management vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

5.3%

EPSS pct

92th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in an ActiveX control in Novell ZENworks Desktop Management 6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the CanUninstall method.

Affected vendor

Novell

Affected product

Zenworks Desktop Management

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2008-11-14

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 confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-5073

Confirm whether Novell Zenworks Desktop Management is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-5073.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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