Buffer overflow in Novell Zenworks Desktop Management

CVE-2008-5073

Heap-based buffer overflow in an ActiveX control in Novell ZENworks Desktop Management 6.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the CanUninstall method.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

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CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.053 (92.3th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 92.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2008-5073: held from 0.053 to 0.053.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.053 · newest: 0.053 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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