CVE-2008-2930
Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a…
- 7.1HighCVSS base score
- 6.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- RedHat 8/9 - Directory Server Crafted Search Pattern Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32304dos, linuxpublished 27 Aug 2008Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High7.1 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.6% · top 6.1% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
17
- rhds-ldapsearch-dos(44733) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6078 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0602 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SSRT080113 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HPx_transferred
- http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31702 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0596 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 31867 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2480 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30871 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7891 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- RHSA-2008:0858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1020773 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454065 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31565 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31627 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7813 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_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-2008-2923 (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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