CVE-2008-6936

Exodus vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

3.1%

EPSS pct

86th

Exploited

No known

Argument injection vulnerability in Exodus 0.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary command line arguments, overwrite arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via encoded spaces in a pres:// URI, a different vector than CVE-2008-6935.

Affected vendor

Jabber

Affected product

Exodus

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-94 — Code Injection

Published

2009-08-11

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 3.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 86% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Jabber Exodus is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-6936.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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