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CVE-2008-1677

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1677 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in the regular expression handler of Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 and 7.1 (before SP6). This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service (slapd crash) and potentially execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted LDAP query. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a high severity due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for full confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. Despite its age, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp5:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0493 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 for RHEL 3Fixed in: redhat-ds-0:7.1SP6-9.RHEL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 for RHEL 4Fixed in: redhat-ds-0:7.1SP6-9.RHEL4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 8 for RHEL 5Fixed in: redhat-ds-base-0:8.0.3-16.el5dsrv
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-1677Critical

Server: insufficient buffer size for search patterns

Feb 23, 2006

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/30181
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/30185
Broken Link
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42332
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0268.html
Third Party Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0269.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/29126
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry