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CVE-2008-7185

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-7185 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in GNOME Rhythmbox version 0.11.5, where a remote attacker can crash the application by providing a specially crafted playlist (.pls) file containing an excessively long Title field. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, as it requires user interaction (AV:N/AC:M) and only leads to a partial impact on availability (A:P). While there is an ExploitDB entry (EDB-31968) detailing the denial-of-service, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.11.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:rhythmbox:0.11.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.06%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-31968 · Jun 26, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0306 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

packetstormsecurity.org / 0806-advisories/rhythmbox-dos.txt
Exploit
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43436
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493683/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / archive/1/493809/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/29958
Exploit