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CVE-2008-2069

51
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2069 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell GroupWise 7, allowing remote attackers to trigger a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 9.3) can be exploited with medium complexity over the network without authentication, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, proof-of-concept exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise:7.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise:7.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:novell:groupwise:7.0:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
33.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5515 · Apr 28, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3345 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

securityreason.com / securityalert/3847
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42052
exploit-db.com / exploits/5515
securityfocus.com / archive/1/491376/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/491576/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/491594/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/28969
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1393/references