CVE-2008-6936 — Argument injection vulnerability in Exodus 0.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary command line arguments, overwrite arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via encoded spaces in a pres:// URI, a different vector than CVE-2008-6935

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Argument injection vulnerability in Exodus 0.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary command line arguments, overwrite arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via encoded spaces in a pres:// URI, a different vector than CVE-2008-6935

Published Aug 11, 2009

9.3

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 3.12%

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in Exodus 0.10 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary command line arguments, overwrite arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service via encoded spaces in a pres:// URI, a different vector than CVE-2008-6935.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

3.12% 0.03124

Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.

EPSS probability 0.03124

Score over time

2022–2026

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Percentile over time

EPSS v2
EPSS v3
EPSS v4
EPSS v5

Table of values (13 key points)

Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.

Date	Score	Percentile	Model
Oct 1, 2026	3.12% (0.03124)	87.40th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Jun 15, 2026	3.12% (0.03124)	86.12th	v5 (v2026.06.15)
Dec 20, 2025	5.62% (0.05618)	90.02th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Apr 9, 2025	2.93% (0.02927)	85.26th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 29, 2025	4.08% (0.04080)	80.62th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Mar 17, 2025	2.99% (0.02991)	85.64th	v4 (v2025.03.14)
Dec 12, 2024	0.52% (0.00517)	77.51th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Feb 8, 2024	0.52% (0.00517)	76.04th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 7, 2023	0.52% (0.00517)	73.13th	v3 (v2023.03.01)
Mar 6, 2023	1.14% (0.01136)	59.45th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Oct 18, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	58.28th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Apr 1, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	56.27th	v2 (v2022.01.01)
Feb 4, 2022	1.14% (0.01136)	34.23th	v2 (v2022.01.01)

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-94

Code Injection

References (3)

http://secunia.com/advisories/32729
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52630
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7167
exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Link	Providers	Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/32729		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52630		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7167		exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Aug 11, 2009

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Aug 11, 2009

Link CVE-2008-6936

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2008-6936

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2008-6936