CVE-2008-5729

Exp

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in AIST NetCat 3.12 and earlier allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) form and (2) control parameters to FCKeditor/neditor.php, and the (3) path parameter to admin/siteinfo/iframe.inc.php.

Published: 2008-12-26 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-5729 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.13%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2008-5729

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
7560 exploit_db edb 2008-12-23 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-5729

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 2026-02-15 2.46% 3.13% +0.67%
2 2025-12-29 1.15% 2.46% +1.31%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.15% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-5729

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-2008-5729

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-5729

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
netcat netcat <= 3.12 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 1.1 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 2.0 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 2.1 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 2.2 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 2.3 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 2.4 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netcat netcat 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:netcat:netcat:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-5729

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