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CVE-2008-5185: geshi Resource Management Errors

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2008-5185
Published 21-11-2008Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2008-5185 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in geshi. EPSS estimates a 3.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.1% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
3.89%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits1exploit-database

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 1
DTSA-179-1

Timeline

  1. 21-11-2008
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

The highlighting functionality in geshi.php in GeSHi before 1.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via an XML sequence containing an opening delimiter without a closing delimiter, as demonstrated using "<".

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

3.89%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

90%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 3.89% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
3.89%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

1 found
  • exploit-databasedosmultipleVerified

    GeSHi 1.0.x - XML Parsing Remote Denial of Service

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • geshi< 1.0.8.1-1
Geshi1 product
  • geshi≤ 1.0.7.22 | 1.0.0 | 1.0.1 | 1.0.2 | 1.0.2_beta_1 | 1.0.3 | 1.0.4 | 1.0.5 | 1.0.6 | 1.0.7 | 1.0.7.1 | 1.0.7.2 | 1.0.7.3 | 1.0.7.4 | 1.0.7.5 | 1.0.7.6 | 1.0.7.7 | 1.0.7.8 | 1.0.7.9 | 1.0.7.10 | 1.0.7.11 | 1.0.7.12 | 1.0.7.13 | 1.0.7.14 | 1.0.7.15 | 1.0.7.16 | 1.0.7.17 | 1.0.7.18 | 1.0.7.19 | 1.0.7.20 | 1.0.7.21

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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