CVE-2008-2338

Exp

Interspire ActiveKB 1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain privileges by setting the auth cookie to true when accessing unspecified scripts in /admin.

Published: 2008-05-19 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2338 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.2/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.75%, 90th percentile). Core evidence: 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-2338

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
5616 exploit_db edb 2008-05-14 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-2338

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 2026-04-26 5.19% 5.75% +0.56%
2 2025-11-30 4.50% 5.19% +0.69%
3 2025-07-09 4.50%

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-2338

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-2338

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-2338

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
interspire activekb <= 1.5 cpe:2.3:a:interspire:activekb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-2338

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