CVE-2008-4917

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

0.46% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Ranks above 38.1% 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.

Published

2008-12-09 00:00Z17 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-07 10:31Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2008-11-03

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-399

Data version

5.1

Document digest

f7df11ae4609edd469e54e441bdb7cb2f6d736db1ff85d44d01fd0dfad8c316a

• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201209-25http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-25.xmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• kb.vmware.comhttp://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006980x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com20081203 VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498863/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:6246https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6246vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
• secunia.com32965http://secunia.com/advisories/32965third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
• kb.vmware.comhttp://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006986x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.securityfocus.com20081203 Re: VMSA-2008-0019 VMware Hosted products and patches for ESX and ESXi resolve a critical security issue and update bzip2http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498886/100/0/threadedmailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
• securitytracker.com1021301http://securitytracker.com/id?1021301vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• securitytracker.com1021300http://securitytracker.com/id?1021300vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
• www.securityfocus.com32597http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32597vdb-entryx_refsource_BID