CVE•Published 2008-10-23•Modified 2026-05-21•1 article on news•6 live references•NVD data

CVE-2008-4250Microsoft · Windows_2000

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

CRITICAL

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

EPSS percentile

100

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 0% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

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."

Timeline

Published 2008-10-23

Modified 2026-05-21

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC trickest/cve VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag915 hosts

vuln:CVE-2008-4250

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

Shodan · OS

os:"Windows 2000"

Hosts Shodan identified as running Windows 2000.

More intel sources (5)

Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2008-4250

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2008-4250