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CVE-2008-3243

14
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3243 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the scanning engine of F-Prot Antivirus before version 6.0.9.0 and F-Prot Scanning Engine before 4.4.4. These flaws allow remote attackers to trigger denial-of-service conditions through specially crafted files, including UPX-compressed, Microsoft Office, and ASPack-compressed files, leading to engine crashes or infinite loops. With a CVSS score of 4.3, this vulnerability is of medium complexity and requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious file) but does not grant confidentiality or integrity impacts, only availability. 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
3.11bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus:3.11b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus:3.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.12aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus:3.12a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.12bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus:3.12b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.12cCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:f-prot:f-prot_antivirus:3.12c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0214 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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/31118
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43868
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43869
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43870
f-prot.com / download/ReleaseNotesWindows.txt
securityfocus.com / bid/30258