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CVE-2007-0720

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-0720 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the CUPS service, affecting Apple CUPS, Apple Mac OS X, and other CUPS implementations. An unauthenticated remote attacker can exploit this by initiating a "partially-negotiated" SSL connection, causing the service to hang and prevent further requests. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.2.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cups:cups:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 10.4.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0532 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.17-13.3.42
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.18
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: cups-1:1.2.4-11.5.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-0720Moderate

security flaw

Nov 13, 2006

References

docs.info.apple.com / article.html
Broken Link
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2785
Broken Link
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
Mailing ListVendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24479
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24517
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24530
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24660
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24878
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/24895
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25119
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25497
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26083
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/26413
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200703-28.xml
Third Party Advisory
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1173
Broken Link
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11046
Third Party Advisory
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-194.htm
Third Party Advisory
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Third Party Advisory
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
Broken Link
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_9_sr.html
Broken Link
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0123.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/463846/100/0/threaded
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/22948
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securityfocus.com / bid/23127
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0930
Third Party Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0949
Third Party Advisory