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CVE-2008-5102

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5102 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in PythonScripts within Zope 2 versions 2.11.2 and earlier, affecting products like Conga. Authenticated remote attackers can trigger resource exhaustion or application halts using specific 'raise' or 'import' statements. With a CVSS score of 4.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P), this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring authentication and leading to partial availability impact. While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking Metasploit or Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-32581) exists, indicating public exploit code, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:1.10.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.10.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:1.10.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.0a4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:zope:zope:2.0.0a4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.96%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32581 · Nov 12, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0396 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-5102Low

conga: DoS via various python scripts insufficiencies

Nov 11, 2008

References

bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
mail.zope.org / pipermail/zope/2008-August/174025.html
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2008/11/12/2
bugs.launchpad.net / zope2/+bug/257269
bugs.launchpad.net / zope2/+bug/257276
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2418
zope.org / Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/Hotfix_20080812-1.1.0.tar.gz
Patch
zope.org / Products/Zope/Hotfix-2008-08-12/README.txt
Vendor Advisory