01 Record
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 IOCTL requests that overwrite arbitrary memory.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.48% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-07-11 22:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 09:28Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-07-11
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- aab97f1a855fd8547f5acf6e7abe79f1aa37fe6e78956be8d05f20d8bac5b345
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securitytracker.com1020385http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020385
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comnovell-client-nwfs-privilege-escalation(43460)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43460
- support.novell.comhttp://support.novell.com/docs/Readmes/InfoDocument/patchbuilder/readme_5028543.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1968http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1968/references
- www.securityfocus.com30001http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30001
- secunia.com30904http://secunia.com/advisories/30904