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CVE-2008-2286

54
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2286 describes a critical SQL injection vulnerability in Symantec Altiris Deployment Solution versions 6.8.x and 6.9.x prior to 6.9.176. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands by manipulating unspecified string fields within a notification packet sent to the axengine.exe component. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is highly severe, enabling potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of affected systems with low attack complexity. While not currently on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit intelligence indicates the existence of a Metasploit module, suggesting readily available exploit code. Despite this, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:altiris_deployment_solution:6.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:symantec:altiris_deployment_solution:6.9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
32.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Symantec Altiris DS SQL Injection · May 15, 2008
ExploitDB: EDB-29552 · Nov 13, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3268 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

marc.info
osvdb.org / show/osvdb/45313
secunia.com / advisories/30261
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42436
exploit-db.com / exploits/29552
securityfocus.com / archive/1/492127/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/492229/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/29198
securitytracker.com / id
symantec.com / avcenter/security/Content/2008.05.14a.html
PatchVendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1542/references
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-08-024