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CVE-2008-0356
Buffer overflow in the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) service in Citrix Presentation Server (MetaFrame Presentation Server) 4.5…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 73.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the Independent Management Architecture (IMA) service in Citrix Presentation Server (MetaFrame Presentation Server) 4.5 and earlier, Access Essentials 2.0 and earlier, and Desktop Server 1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid size value in a packet to TCP port 2512 or 2513.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 73.0% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 20080117 ZDI-08-002: Citrix Presentation Server IMA Service Heap Overflow Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 28508 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0172 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#412228 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 1019231 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 27329 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-002.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX114487 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-0366 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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