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CVE-2008-4250

Exploitation: active CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL

CVSS base score: 9.8 (Critical) CISA · v3.1

Score assigned by CISA's Vulnrichment program; the vendor's CVE record did not include one.

Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Vendor: Microsoft   Product: Windows

Description

Microsoft Windows contains a buffer overflow vulnerability in the Windows Server Service that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted RPC request that triggers an overflow during path canonicalization.

Lifecycle Timeline

Each milestone comes from a different source, so gaps between them are gaps in what those sources publish, not evidence that nothing happened. EPSS history for this CVE holds 254 points from 2022-02-05, tracked daily from 2026-09-09; earlier points are weekly, which dates a spike to within a week. Peak probability 98.8% on 2026-06-20.

Published Applicability

CVE List v5 (CNA container) 1 affected · 0 fixed · 0 not affected

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What each source publishes about which product versions carry this vulnerability, kept as written rather than merged. Absence here means no source has published applicability data, not that nothing is affected.

Research & News Coverage

No mentions found in monitored research blogs or news feeds.

Detection & Exploitation

Exploit / Pen Test
Host / SIEM
none published

Coverage across public collections only: Nuclei and OpenVAS NVT (scan); Snort and Suricata ET Open (network); Sigma and YARA (host/SIEM); Metasploit, Exploit-DB and public GitHub repositories (exploit). Absence here means nothing public was found, not that detection is impossible.
GitHub PoC repositories are collected automatically by PoC-in-GitHub (CC0) and are not vetted: some are fakes and some are malware. Treat them as evidence that code was published, not as code to run.
OpenVAS coverage derives from the Greenbone Community Feed, made available under the Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0; its individual Vulnerability Tests are licensed GNU GPL v2.

CISA Assessment (Vulnrichment / SSVC)

active
yes
total
9.8 CRITICAL
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
2026-05-20

D3FEND Countermeasures

Defensive techniques inferred by MITRE D3FEND from the underlying weakness (CWE-119) — general hardening and detection guidance for this weakness class, not a vendor patch for this specific CVE.

KEV Catalog Status

2026-05-20
2026-06-03
Unknown

Listed By

SourceDateRecord
CISA KEV 2026-05-20 source record →
CISA Vulnrichment 2026-05-20 source record →

Weaponization Timeline — Offensive & Testing Tools

DateToolEvidence qualityReference
— Metasploit Direct — curated exploit code MS08-067 Microsoft Server Service Relative Path Stack Corruption
2008-10-23 ExploitDB Direct — curated exploit code Microsoft Windows Server - Code Execution (PoC) (MS08-067)
2008-10-26 ExploitDB Direct — curated exploit code Microsoft Windows Server - Universal Code Execution (MS08-067)
2008-11-12 ExploitDB Direct — curated exploit code Microsoft Windows Server - Code Execution (MS08-067)
2008-11-16 ExploitDB Direct — curated exploit code Microsoft Windows Server 2000/2003 - Code Execution (MS08-067)
2011-01-21 ExploitDB Direct — curated exploit code Microsoft Windows Server - Service Relative Path Stack Corruption (MS08-067) (Metasploit)
2016-02-26 ExploitDB Direct — curated exploit code Microsoft Windows - 'NetAPI32.dll' Code Execution (Python) (MS08-067)

Evidence tiers are explained on the About page — a merged Metasploit module is far stronger evidence than a distro package mention.

External References