CVE-2008-2929

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the adminutil library in the Directory Server Administration Express and Directory Server Gateway (DSGW) web interface in Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7 and 8 EL4 and EL5, and Fedora Directory Server, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via input values that use % (percent) escaping.

Published: 2008-08-29 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2929 is rated Moderate Risk (41.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.63%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-2929

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 2025-03-17 0.40% 0.63% +0.23%
2 2024-10-11 0.32% 0.40% +0.08%
3 2023-03-07 0.32%

Full EPSS history (4 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-2929

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-2929

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-2929

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2929

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-2929

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
fedora directory_server cpe:2.3:a:fedora:directory_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp4:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp5:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 7.1 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:7.1:sp6:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:8.0:el4:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat directory_server 8.0 cpe:2.3:a:redhat:directory_server:8.0:el5:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-2929

URL Tags
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01532861
http://secunia.com/advisories/31565
http://secunia.com/advisories/31612
http://secunia.com/advisories/31702
http://secunia.com/advisories/31777
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020772
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html Patch
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30870 Patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2480
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454621
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44737
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5877
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0596.html
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0601.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00218.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00449.html
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