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Fencer Vulns
high 7.1

CVE-2008-2930 json

Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a de…

published 2008-08-29 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2923

cvss
7.1
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.6%
EPSS 6.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Red Hat Directory Server 7.1 before SP7, Red Hat Directory Server 8, and Fedora Directory Server 1.1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and search outage) via crafted LDAP search requests with patterns, related to a single-threaded regular-expression subsystem.

Patch / fix

  • redhat-ds-base enterprise ipa 1.0, directory server 8 8.0.4-7.el5dsrv
  • redhat-ds-admin directory server 8 8.0.4-3.el5dsrv
  • redhat-ds directory server 7.1 7.1SP7-14.RHEL4

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0602RHSA-2008:0596RHSA-2008:0858

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-2008-2930 updated cvss 4.0

Server: temporary DoS via crafted pattern searches

  • 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) redhat-ds-base 8.0.4-7.el5dsrv, redhat-ds-admin 8.0.4-3.el5dsrv
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0602
  • 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) redhat-ds-base 8.0.4-7.el4dsrv, redhat-ds-admin 8.0.4-3.el4dsrv Red Hat Directory Server 8.0 (for ES v. 4) redhat-ds-base 8.0.4-7.el4dsrv, redhat-ds-admin 8.0.4-3.el4dsrv
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32304)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

6.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32304 RedHat 8/9 - Directory Server Crafted Search Pattern Denial of Service dos, 2008-08-27

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.1 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-399 Resource Management Errors

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.