CVE-2008-4250
Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Published
- Oct 23, 2008
- Updated
- May 21, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- microsoft
- Evidence observed
- Oct 23, 2008
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.9%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
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."
Sources
11- ms08-067.pyExploit
This repository contains some python scripts implementation for the MS08-067 Windows Server Service vulnerability (CVE-2008-4250). This is a classic remote code execution vulnerability affecting older Windows systems.
- MS08-067Exploit
Python-based exploit for MS08-067 (CVE-2008-4250) providing remote code execution via SMB with reverse shell payload generation and automatic target version detection.
- Exploit_MS08-067Exploit
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