CVE-2008-2930
HIGH · CVSS 7.1EPSS 6.6%EU EUVD
Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.
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
- 6.6% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2923)
- Published
- August 29, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2923 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedora / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
- redhat / directory server
References
- http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01532861
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31565
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31627
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31702
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31867
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1020773
- http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html(Patch)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0602.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0858.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30871(Patch)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2480
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44733
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6078
- https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0596.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00521.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00708.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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