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CVE-2008-5714
Off-by-one error in monitor.c in Qemu 0.9.1 might make it easier for remote attackers to guess the VNC password, which is limited to seven…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 2.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 18% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Off-by-one error in monitor.c in Qemu 0.9.1 might make it easier for remote attackers to guess the VNC password, which is limited to seven characters where eight was intended.
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 | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
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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
12
- [qemu-devel] 20081210 Re: [RESEND] [PATCH v2] Fix off-by-one bug limiting VNC passwords to 7 chars (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 35062 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- qemu-monitor-weak-security(47683) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- [qemu-devel] 20081123 [PATCH] Fix off-by-one bug limiting VNC passwords to 7 chars (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 34642 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5966 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33020 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- USN-776-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 33568 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/trunk/monitor.c?root=qemu&r1=5966&r2=5965&pathrev=5966 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2008-5685 (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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