EIP-2026-115960

PRE-CVE

Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 - Remote Denial of Service

Title source: legacy
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

EIP tracks 1 public exploit for EIP-2026-115960. PoCs published by karak0rsan.

AI-analyzed exploit summary The exploit demonstrates a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 by sending a large number of HTTP requests with long Unicode strings to the Dhost Http Server on port 8028, causing 100% CPU consumption. The code uses Perl to create a socket connection and flood the target with malformed requests.

Description

Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 - Remote Denial of Service

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by karak0rsan · textdoswindows
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9597

The exploit demonstrates a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5 by sending a large number of HTTP requests with long Unicode strings to the Dhost Http Server on port 8028, causing 100% CPU consumption. The code uses Perl to create a socket connection and flood the target with malformed requests.

Classification
Working Poc 95%
Attack Type
Dos
Complexity
Trivial
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Novell eDirectory 8.8 SP5
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Network access to the target server · Dhost Http Server running on port 8028
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 18, 2026 Full analysis →

Details

Status pre_cve
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026