CVE-2008-2952
liblber/io.c in OpenLDAP 2.2.4 to 2.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program termination) via crafted ASN.1 BER…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 13.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
liblber/io.c in OpenLDAP 2.2.4 to 2.4.10 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (program termination) via crafted ASN.1 BER datagrams that trigger an assertion error.
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
- OpenLDAP 2.3.41 - BER Decoding Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32000dos, linuxpublished 30 Jun 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
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By mitre
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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 13.2% · top 3.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
31
- RHSA-2008:0583 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-200808-09 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 31364 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10662 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 30917 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2008-07-31 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- openldap-bergetnext-dos(43515) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=5580%3Bselectid=5580 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- DSA-1650 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 30013 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security 20080701 Re: [oss-security] openldap DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2268 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20080811 rPSA-2008-0249-1 openldap openldap-clients openldap-servers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2645 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 30996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31436 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:021 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- MDVSA-2008:144 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080713 Re: openldap DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-634-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-052/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 30853 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0249 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31326 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6062 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 32254 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1020405 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1978 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.openldap.org/its/index.cgi/Software%20Bugs?id=5580 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-6029 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 32316 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2008-2942 (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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