Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-2930 is rated High Exploit Risk (70.9/100): CVSS High severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 6.55%, 93th 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.
| EDB-ID | Source | Kind | Published | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32304 | exploit_db | edb | 2008-08-27 | Exploit-DB ↗ |
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 | 15.23% | 6.55% | -8.67% |
| 2 | 2025-10-19 | 14.34% | 15.23% | +0.89% |
| 3 | 2025-08-29 | — | 14.34% | — |
Full EPSS history (11 records total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.1 | 2.0 | HIGH |
|
8.6 | 6.9 | [email protected] |
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
|---|---|---|---|
redhat
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low | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-2930 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| fedora | directory_server | 1.1.1 | cpe:2.3:a:fedora:directory_server:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
| 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:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |