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CVE-2008-2285

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2285 describes a vulnerability in the ssh-vulnkey tool on Ubuntu Linux versions 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04 LTS. This tool failed to properly identify vulnerable keys in authorized_keys files when those lines included options, thereby hindering the detection of keys susceptible to CVE-2008-0166. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), this vulnerability is of medium severity, allowing for potential information disclosure with low attack complexity and no authentication required. 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
7.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:linux:7.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:linux:7.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ubuntu:linux:8.04:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.69%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0169 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/42568
ubuntu.com / usn/usn-612-5