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CVE-2008-3158
Unspecified vulnerability in NWFS.SYS in Novell Client for Windows 4.91 SP4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to…
Medium6.9EPSS 5.5%
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Description
Unspecified vulnerability in NWFS.SYS in Novell Client for Windows 4.91 SP4 has unknown impact and attack vectors, possibly related to IOCTL requests that overwrite arbitrary memory.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.9 | AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.5% · top 7.2% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.9.
Weakness
Affected products
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References (6)
- 1020385 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- novell-client-nwfs-privilege-escalation(43460) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5028543.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-1968 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 30001 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 30904 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- 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)
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