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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-2929 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the adminutil library in the Directory Server Administration Express and Directory S…

published 2008-08-29 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2922

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 77%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the adminutil library in the Directory Server Administration Express and Directory Server Gateway (DSGW) web interface in Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7 and 8 EL4 and EL5, and Fedora Directory Server, allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via input values that use % (percent) escaping.

Patch / fix

  • adminutil directory server 8 1.1.7-3.el5dsrv
  • redhat-ds directory server 7.1 7.1SP7-14.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0601RHSA-2008:0596

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-2008-2929 updated cvss 4.3

Server: multiple XSS issues

  • Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 (for AS v. 3) redhat-ds 7.1SP7-14.RHEL3 Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 (for ES v. 3) redhat-ds 7.1SP7-14.RHEL3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0596
  • Red Hat Directory Server 8 (for RHEL 5 Server) adminutil 1.1.7-3.el5dsrv
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0601
  • Red Hat RHEL 4 Directory Server AS redhat-ds 7.1SP7-14.RHEL4 Red Hat RHEL 4 Directory Server ES redhat-ds 7.1SP7-14.RHEL4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0596
  • Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for AS v. 4) adminutil 1.1.7-3.el4dsrv Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for ES v. 4) adminutil 1.1.7-3.el4dsrv
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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