CVE-2008-6195

Exp

Directory traversal vulnerability in the PXE TFTP Service (PXEMTFTP.exe) in LANDesk Management Suite (LDMS) 8.80.1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a subdirectory name followed by ".." sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2008-1643.

Published: 2009-02-20 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2008-6195 is rated High Exploit Risk (77.2/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.59%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2008-6195

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31591 exploit_db edb 2008-04-02 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-6195

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 2026-04-12 3.25% 3.59% +0.33%
2 2026-02-20 2.73% 3.25% +0.53%
3 2026-02-07 — 2.73% —

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-6195

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N 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:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-6195

NVD evaluator notes for CVE-2008-6195

Solution: Per http://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-2659 For LDMS 8.7 SP5 download OSD-848987.5.zip which is attached to this document. (NOTE: You must have 8.7 SP5 installed) For LDMS 8.8 download OSD-848988.0.zip which is attached to this document. NOTE: These patches include the code for the previous OSD-7374XX patches that addresses bullet point 1 in the Description section as well as code to address bullet point 2. In any case where OSD-7374XX has already been applied to the core, the above patches should be applied to include the new fix.

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-6195

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
landesk landesk_management_suite <= 8.80.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:landesk:landesk_management_suite:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
landesk landesk_management_suite 8.7 cpe:2.3:a:landesk:landesk_management_suite:8.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
landesk landesk_management_suite 8.7 cpe:2.3:a:landesk:landesk_management_suite:8.7:sp5:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-6195

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