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CVE-2008-0597

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-0597 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in CUPS versions prior to 1.1.22, impacting products like Easy Software Products CUPS and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This flaw allows remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial of service by sending specially crafted IPP packets. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring low attack complexity to achieve a partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.22CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:easy_software_products:cups:1.1.22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0231 is in the 72nd percentile among its peer group of 23,701 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.17-13.3.51
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cups-1:1.1.22-0.rc1.9.20.2.el4_6.5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2008-0597Moderate

cups: dereference of free'd memory handling IPP browse requests

Feb 25, 2008

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2008-03/msg00000.html
secunia.com / advisories/29087
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/29189
secunia.com / advisories/29251
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/40845
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-2283
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9492
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-084.htm
support.avaya.com / elmodocs2/security/ASA-2008-098.htm
wiki.rpath.com / Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091
wiki.rpath.com / wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0091
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0153.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0161.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/488966/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/27988
securitytracker.com / id