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CVE-2008-2375

HIGH · CVSS 7.1EPSS 3.7%EU EUVD

Memory leak in a certain Red Hat deployment of vsftpd before 2.0.5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 3 and 4, when PAM is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a large number of invalid authentication attempts within the same session, a different vulnerability than CVE-2007-5962.

Key facts

CVSS score
7.1 (v2.0)
Severity
HIGH
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-399
EPSS score
3.7% (90th percentile)
In CISA KEV
No
In EU EUVD
Yes (EUVD-2008-2370)
Published
July 9, 2008
NVD last modified
June 16, 2026
Status
Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2370 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

  • redhat / enterprise linux
  • redhat / enterprise linux
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd
  • redhat / vsftpd

References

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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