CVE-2008-5091 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Novell eDirectory versions 8.7.3 prior to SP10a and 8.8 prior to SP3. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending a specially crafted "invalid extensibleMatch filter" to the LDAP service, causing the application to crash. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:*:sp2:windows:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.5.12aCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.5.12a:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.5.27CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:novell:edirectory:8.5.27:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.