CVE-2008-2595

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Unspecified vulnerability in the Oracle Internet Directory component in Oracle Application Server 9.0.4.3, 10.1.2.3, and 10.1.4.2 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors. NOTE: the previous information was obtained from the Oracle July 2008 CPU. Oracle has not commented on reliable researcher claims that this issue is a denial of service (crash) via a malformed LDAP request that triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Published: 2008-07-15 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2595 is rated High Exploit Risk (65/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 13.53%, 94th 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-2008-2595

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
6101 exploit_db edb 2008-07-19 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-2595

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 2026-05-04 16.48% 13.53% -2.95%
2 2025-07-15 10.93% 16.48% +5.55%
3 2025-05-24 10.93%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-2595

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-2008-2595

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-2595

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
oracle database_10g 10.1.2.3 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:database_10g:10.1.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle database_10g 10.1.4.2 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:database_10g:10.1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
oracle database_9i 9.0.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:oracle:database_9i:9.0.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-2595

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