CVE-2008-1303
The Perforce service (p4s.exe) in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a missing parameter to the (1) dm-FaultFile, (2) dm-LazyCheck, (3) dm-ResolvedFile, (4) dm-OpenFile, (5)…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 7.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
The Perforce service (p4s.exe) in Perforce Server 2007.3/143793 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a missing parameter to the (1) dm-FaultFile, (2) dm-LazyCheck, (3) dm-ResolvedFile, (4) dm-OpenFile, (5) crypto, and possibly unspecified other commands, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 7.58% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 5 March 2008
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20
- Affected
- perforce/perforce server
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 7.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/perforces-adv.txt
- http://aluigi.org/poc/perforces.zipExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29231Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3735
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489179/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28108
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41015
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/perforces-adv.txt
- http://aluigi.org/poc/perforces.zipExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29231Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3735
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489179/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28108
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41015
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.