CVE-2008-1215

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.008 · 56 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

0.79% (56th) EPSS

CVSS 4.6 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Stack-based buffer overflow in the command_Expand_Interpret function in command.c in ppp (aka user-ppp), as distributed in FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, OpenBSD 4.1 and 4.2, and the net/userppp package for NetBSD, allows local users to gain privileges via long commands containing "~" characters.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.6

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04.6mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6.4

v2.04.1mediumAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:POCsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-31333BSD PPP 'pppx.conf' - Local Denial of Servicefunctional · exploit_db

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
freebsd freebsd= 6.3nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
freebsd freebsd= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
netbsd netbsdall versionsnvdUScpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openbsd openbsd= 4.1nvdUScpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
openbsd openbsd= 4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-03-09modified 2026-06-16

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references (18)

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