CRITICAL: CVE-2008-4250 actively exploited — microsoft windows 2000

CVE: CVE-2008-4250

CVSS: 9.8 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: CRITICAL

Status: ✅ Confirmed exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)

Affected

• microsoft windows 2000
• microsoft windows server 2003
• microsoft windows server 2008
• microsoft windows vista
• microsoft windows xp

Summary

The Server service in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP1 and SP2, Vista Gold and SP1, Server 2008, and 7 Pre-Beta allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request that triggers the overflow during path canonicalization, as exploited in the wild by Gimmiv.A in October 2008, aka "Server Service Vulnerability."

Verified Sources

• NVD entry
• GitHub Advisory
• MITRE
• CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

References

• http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/1150
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=122703006921213&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32326
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/827267
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497808/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497816/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31874
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021091
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA08-297A.html
• http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-088A.html

_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._