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CVE-2008-3969
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in BitlBee before 1.2.3 allow remote attackers to "overwrite" and "hijack" existing accounts via…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 16% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in BitlBee before 1.2.3 allow remote attackers to "overwrite" and "hijack" existing accounts via unknown vectors related to "inconsistent handling of the USTATUS_IDENTIFIED state." NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3920.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 1 day later
· 1 day 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.4% · top 16% 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: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- [oss-security] 20080908 Re: CVE request for bitlbee (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-7761 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- 31342 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080909 Re: CVE request for bitlbee (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- bitlbee-multiple-unspecified-security-bypass(45132) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- GLSA-200809-14 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461424 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/changelog.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 31991 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31690 (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-2008-3954 (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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