CVE-2008-5038
Use-after-free vulnerability in the NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) feature in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 SP10 before 8.7.3 SP10 FTF1 and 8.8 SP2…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 6.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the NetWare Core Protocol (NCP) feature in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 SP10 before 8.7.3 SP10 FTF1 and 8.8 SP2 for Windows allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a sequence of "Get NCP Extension Information By Name" requests that cause one thread to operate on memory after it has been freed in another thread, which triggers memory corruption, aka Novell Bug 373852.
Timeline
ID reserved
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 | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.2% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3426981 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20081030 Novell eDirectory NCP Get Extension Information Request Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037181.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 32395 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 31956 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 48206 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1021117 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- novell-edirectory-ncp-unspecified(46138) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5037180.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2937 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2008-5017 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-5038)Record last updated .