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CVE-2008-7227

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7227 describes a vulnerability in GeoServer versions prior to 1.6.1 and 1.7.0-beta1, where the PartialBufferOutputStream2 component attempts to flush an in-memory buffer, preventing service exception reporting. This issue has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:geoserver:geoserver:*:beta4:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:geoserver:geoserver:1.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:geoserver:geoserver:1.3.0:beta:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:geoserver:geoserver:1.3.0:pr1:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:geoserver:geoserver:1.3.0:rc2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.93%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
56.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0093 is in the 36th percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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 0.4 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.geoserver:gs-mainFixed in: 1.6.1
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.geoserver.web:gs-web-appFixed in: 1.6.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

mavenGHSA-8hmh-mhqv-7638medium

PartialBufferOutputStream2 flush issues

May 17, 2022

References

jira.codehaus.org / browse/GEOS-1747
osvdb.org / 43266