CVE-2008-5410
The PK11_SESSION cache in the OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine in Sun Solaris 10 does not maintain reference counts for operations with asymmetric…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 15% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The PK11_SESSION cache in the OpenSSL PKCS#11 engine in Sun Solaris 10 does not maintain reference counts for operations with asymmetric keys, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (failed cryptographic operations) via unspecified vectors, related to the (1) RSA_sign and (2) RSA_verify functions.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-138863-02-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- solaris-openssl-pkcs11engine-dos(47137) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 32671 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-21-139459-01-1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3372 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 33050 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 246846 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- 1021358 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:5914 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_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-2008-5387 (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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