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CVE-2008-1796

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-1796 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Comix 3.6.4, affecting various Comix and Fedora distributions. The flaw stems from the application's use of predictable temporary directory names, allowing a local attacker to disrupt service. With a CVSS score of 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C), this vulnerability requires local access and has a low attack complexity, leading to a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:comix:comix:3.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.9MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 33rd percentile among its peer group of 3,048 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/29956
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200804-29.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/41854
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00171.html
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00183.html