CVE-2008-2932
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 3.4%EU EUVD
Heap-based buffer overflow in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via % (percent) encoded HTTP input to unspecified CGI scripts in Fedora Directory Server. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-2929.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.4% (89th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2925)
- Published
- September 12, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2925 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- redhat / adminutil
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31777(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31106
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454662
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45203
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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