Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 9.0

CVE-2008-0892 in the critical feed json

The replication monitor CGI script (repl-monitor-cgi.pl) in Red Hat Administration Server, as used by Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 EL4 and…

published 2008-04-16 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-0899

cvss
9.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
14.0%
EPSS 14.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The replication monitor CGI script (repl-monitor-cgi.pl) in Red Hat Administration Server, as used by Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 EL4 and EL5, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands.

Patch / fix

  • redhat-ds-admin directory server 8 8.0.0-6.el5dsrv
  • redhat-ds directory server 7.1 7.1SP5-8.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0201RHSA-2008:0199

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-0892 updated cvss 7.7

Server: shell command injection in CGI replication monitor

  • Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 (for AS v. 3) redhat-ds 7.1SP5-8.RHEL3 Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 (for ES v. 3) redhat-ds 7.1SP5-8.RHEL3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0199
  • Red Hat Directory Server 8 (for RHEL 5 Server) redhat-ds-admin 8.0.0-6.el5dsrv
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0201
  • Red Hat RHEL 4 Directory Server AS redhat-ds 7.1SP5-8.RHEL4 Red Hat RHEL 4 Directory Server ES redhat-ds 7.1SP5-8.RHEL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0199
  • Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for AS v. 4) redhat-ds-admin 8.0.0-6.el4dsrv Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for ES v. 4) redhat-ds-admin 8.0.0-6.el4dsrv
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

14.02% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.