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CVE-2008-2929

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2929 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities found in the adminutil library of Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 (before SP7), 8 EL4/EL5, and Fedora Directory Server. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through input values utilizing percent escaping. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity with network-based attacks, medium complexity, and potential for partial integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fedora:directory_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-0:7.1SP7-14.RHEL3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 for RHEL 4Fixed in: redhat-ds-0:7.1SP7-14.RHEL4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 8 for RHEL 5Fixed in: adminutil-0:1.1.7-3.el5dsrv
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2929Moderate

Server: multiple XSS issues

Aug 27, 2008

References

h20000.www2.hp.com / bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31565
secunia.com / advisories/31612
secunia.com / advisories/31702
secunia.com / advisories/31777
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/44737
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5877
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2008-0596.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2008-0601.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
redhat.com / docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/30870
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2480