Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0944

Title: Ipswitch Instant Messaging Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2008-0944

CWE Category CWE-189

Published Date Feb 25, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

11.26%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0944: Ipswitch Instant Messaging (IM) 2.0.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a version field containing zero.

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 1

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/28824 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3697 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487748/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27677 http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt http://secunia.com/advisories/28824 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3697 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487748/100/200/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27677

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0944 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/31122

View Code

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 25, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.