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Critical · 9.8 Known exploited Public exploit CVE-2008-4250 EUVD-2008-4233GHSA-3v68-r58v-m4c2

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 …

Published Oct 23, 2008 · Updated May 21, 2026 · Assigned by microsoft

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."

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.

Metasploit 1 module

Exploit-DB 6

GitHub 4 repositories

  • BinRacer/ms08-067.py ★ 3 · Sep 6, 2025

    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 olde…

  • NoTrustedx/Exploit_MS08-067 ★ 1 · Jun 2, 2025

    MS08-067 | CVE-2008-4250

  • thunderstrike9090/Conflicker_analysis_scripts ★ 1 · Oct 18, 2018

    Scripts to analyze conflicker worm which exploits famous netapi vulnerability (CVE-2008-4250) i.e MS08-067

  • BinRacer/ms08-067 ★ 0 · Sep 6, 2025

    This repository contains a Metasploit module implementation for the MS08-067 Windows Server Service vulnerability (CVE-2008-4250). This is a classic remote code execution vulnerability affecting olde…

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