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Vulnerability record · CVE-2008-2003 · published 28 April 2008

CVE-2008-2003: Badblue permissions and access controls vulnerability

BBadblue · Badblue

BadBlue 2.72 Personal Edition stores multiple programs in the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service via multiple invocations of uninst.exe, and have an unknown impact via (2) badblue.exe and (3) dyndns.exe. NOTE: this can be leveraged for arbitrary remote code execution in conjunction with CVE-2007-6378.

7.5 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 2.8% · top 13.9% CWE-264 · Permissions and access controls
7.5CVSS 2.0 base score
2.8%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

BadBlue 2.72 Personal Edition stores multiple programs in the web document root with insufficient access control, which allows remote attackers to (1) cause a denial of service via multiple invocations of uninst.exe, and have an unknown impact via (2) badblue.exe and (3) dyndns.exe. NOTE: this can be leveraged for arbitrary remote code execution in conjunction with CVE-2007-6378.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3832
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491282/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42090
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3832
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/491282/100/0/threaded
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42090

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2008-2003), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.