CVE-2008-3158
Unspecified vulnerability in NWFS.SYS in Novell Client for Windows 4.91 SP4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to…
- 6.9MediumCVSS base score
- 5.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in NWFS.SYS in Novell Client for Windows 4.91 SP4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to IOCTL requests that overwrite arbitrary memory.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Novell Client 4.91 SP4 nwfs.sys Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/local/novell_client_nwfsRank averagedisclosed 26 Jun 2008
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Novell Client 4.91 SP4 - 'nwfs.sys' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26418local, windowspublished 24 Jun 2013Not verified
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
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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 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 1020385 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- novell-client-nwfs-privilege-escalation(43460) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5028543.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 30904 (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-2008-3148 (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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