VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2008-5618
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability1.17%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-12-17
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Description
imudp in rsyslog 4.x before 4.1.2, 3.21 before 3.21.9 beta, and 3.20 before 3.20.2 generates a message even when it is sent by an unauthorized sender, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) via a large number of spurious messages.