CVE-2008-2929

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-08-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

Fedora Directory Server: all versions
RedHat Directory Server: 7.1-sp1, 7.1-sp2, 7.1-sp3, 7.1-sp4, 7.1-sp5, 7.1-sp6 (+2)

References

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c01532861
http://secunia.com/advisories/31565
http://secunia.com/advisories/31612
http://secunia.com/advisories/31702
http://secunia.com/advisories/31777
http://securitytracker.com/id?1020772
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/dir-server/release-notes/7.1SP7/index.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30870
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2480
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=454621
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44737
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5877

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