Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-0945

Title: Ipswitch Instant Messaging Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-0945.

CWE Category CWE-134

Published Date Feb 25, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.18%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-0945: Format string vulnerability in the logging function in the IM Server (aka IMserve or IMserver) in Ipswitch Instant Messaging (IM) 2.0.8.1 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly have unspecified other impact via format string specifiers in an IP address field.

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 2

Reference Links

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt http://aluigi.org/poc/ipsimene.zip 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://aluigi.org/poc/ipsimene.zip 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 LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-0945 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

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:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.