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CVE-2008-0960

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 68.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2008-06-10 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-287

Description

SNMPv3 HMAC verification in (1) Net-SNMP 5.2.x before 5.2.4.1, 5.3.x before 5.3.2.1, and 5.4.x before 5.4.1.1; (2) UCD-SNMP; (3) eCos; (4) Juniper Session and Resource Control (SRC) C-series 1.0.0 through 2.0.0; (5) NetApp (aka Network Appliance) Data ONTAP 7.3RC1 and 7.3RC2; (6) SNMP Research before 16.2; (7) multiple Cisco IOS, CatOS, ACE, and Nexus products; (8) Ingate Firewall 3.1.0 and later and SIParator 3.1.0 and later; (9) HP OpenView SNMP Emanate Master Agent 15.x; and possibly other products relies on the client to specify the HMAC length, which makes it easier for remote attackers to bypass SNMP authentication via a length value of 1, which only checks the first byte.

Affected products

• Juniper Session And Resource Control: 1.0, 2.0
• Juniper Src Pe: 1.0, 2.0

References

• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jun/msg00002.html
• http://lists.ingate.com/pipermail/productinfo/2008/000021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00000.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=127730470825399&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0528.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30574
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30596
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30612
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30615
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30626
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30647
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30648

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