CVE-2008-0977

Double-Take 5.0.0.2865 and earlier, distributed under the HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring name and other names, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a certain long packet that triggers an attempt to allocate a large amount of memory.

Published: 2008-02-25 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-0977 is rated Moderate Risk (46.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.71%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-0977

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 1.19% 1.71% +0.52%
2 2025-03-17 3.79% 1.19% -2.60%
3 2025-02-05 3.79%

Full EPSS history (11 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-0977

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-0977

Vendor comments (NVD) for CVE-2008-0977

  • Double-Take (2009-05-08T00:00:00)

    This issue was fixed in version 5.1 which was released July 11, 2008

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-0977

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
double-take_software double-take 4.5 cpe:2.3:a:double-take_software:double-take:4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
double-take_software double-take 5.0.0.2865 cpe:2.3:a:double-take_software:double-take:5.0.0.2865:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-0977

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