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CVE-2008-0893

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0893 describes an access restriction vulnerability in Red Hat Administration Server, affecting Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 EL4 and EL5. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute administrative actions through improperly restricted CGI scripts. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially leading to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:8.0:el4:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:8.0:el5:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.01%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
78.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0201 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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 (1)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Directory Server 8 for RHEL 5Fixed in: redhat-ds-admin-0:8.0.0-6.el5dsrv
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-0893Moderate

Server: unrestricted access to CGI scripts

Apr 15, 2008

References

bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
secunia.com / advisories/29761
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29826
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41843
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00380.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00386.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0201.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/28802
securitytracker.com / id