CVE-2008-5035

The Resource Monitoring and Control (RMC) daemon in IBM Hardware Management Console (HMC) 7 release 3.2.0 SP1 and 3.3.0 SP2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash or hang) via a packet with an invalid length.

Published: 2008-11-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-5035 is rated Moderate Risk (47.9/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.08%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5035

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 1.83% 2.08% +0.25%
2 2025-03-30 1.72% 1.83% +0.11%
3 2025-03-29 1.72%

Full EPSS history (10 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5035

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-2008-5035

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5035

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ibm hardware_management_console 3.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:3.2.0:sp1:*:*:*:*:*:*
ibm hardware_management_console 3.3.0 cpe:2.3:a:ibm:hardware_management_console:3.3.0:sp2:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5035

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