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CVE-2008-2932

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2932 is a heap-based buffer overflow in Red Hat adminutil 1.1.6, specifically affecting Fedora Directory Server, stemming from an incomplete fix for a previous vulnerability. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted percent-encoded HTTP input to unspecified CGI scripts. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:adminutil:1.1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0338 is in the 78th 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-2932Important

Server: adminutil / CGI heap overflow

Aug 27, 2008

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/31777
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45203
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
securityfocus.com / bid/31106