CVE-2008-1777: Novell Edirectory

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The eDirectory Host Environment service (dhost.exe) in Novell eDirectory 8.8.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long HTTP HEAD request to TCP port 8028.

Affected products

• Novell Edirectory: version 8.8.2 only

Published 2008-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.