CVE-2008-4250

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."

Scoring

Severity

CRITICAL

CVSS base score

9.8

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS probability

92.46%

CISA KEV

Known exploited vulnerability

Published

2008-10-23

Last modified

2026-05-21

Affected products

• n/a n/a

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