CVE-2008-2930
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…
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A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified) and the impact is high, while EPSS rates exploitation at 6.6%. Anyone can run this; patch or mitigate before the next change window and check exposed instances for signs of use.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.1 HIGHAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- EPSS
- 6.55% probability · 94th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 27 August 2008
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-399
- Affected
- fedora/directory server · redhat/directory server
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 6.6% 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://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.htmlPatch
- 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/30871Patch
- 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
- 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.htmlPatch
- 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/30871Patch
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2480
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44733
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.