CVE-2008-0927

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 70.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-04-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

dhost.exe in Novell eDirectory 8.7.3 before sp10 and 8.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with (1) multiple Connection headers or (2) a Connection header with multiple comma-separated values. NOTE: this might be similar to CVE-2008-1777.

Affected products

Microsoft Windows-Nt: 2000, 2003

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/29805
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3829452&sliceId=1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491622/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28757
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019836
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1217/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41787
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/5547
http://secunia.com/advisories/29805
http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3829452&sliceId=1
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491622/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28757

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