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CVE-2008-4250
CWE-94
Critical
103.8
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
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."
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 98.75%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since May 2026
- Fix commit
- No known fix commit
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-94
- CWE-94, CWE-119
- Published
- 23 Oct 2008
- Last modified 21 May 2026
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Data as of 8 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time