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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

70.0% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-399 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-399 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 20080505 Novell eDirectory DoS via HTTP headers (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 1019836 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 29805 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• http://www.novell.com/support/viewContent.do?externalId=3829452&sliceId=1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2008-1217 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• novell-edirectory-dhost-dos(41787) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• 28757 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 5547 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2008-0927](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2008-0927.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2008-0927)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 08:01 UTC.