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CVE-2008-3287

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-3287 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in retroclient.exe within EMC Dantz Retrospect Backup Client 7.5.116, allowing remote attackers to crash the daemon via malformed packets to TCP port 497, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low complexity, and potential for partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage, suggesting a low current threat profile.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.5.116CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:emc_dantz:retrospect_backup_client:7.5.116:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.66%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0266 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 23,684 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

kb.dantz.com / display/2/articleDirect/index.asp
secunia.com / advisories/31186
PatchVendor Advisory
securityreason.com / securityalert/4031
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43926
fortiguardcenter.com / advisory/FGA-2008-16.html
Patch
securityfocus.com / archive/1/494562/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/30313
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/2150/references